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Mad Men Map Shows You Where Don Drank and Dined

WNYC has put together this handy guide to the NYC hotspots frequented by characters in AMC’s Mad Men. To further flesh out Mad Men Mapped in anticipation of Sunday’s season 5 finale, WNYC wants fans of the show to email [email protected] “with a New York neighborhood, building or spot you’ve heard a character mention or…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

This DIY Street View Kit Is Your Very Own Google Map Maker

Google is doing everything it can to photograph every last corner of the world for its Street View feature. But there are still some places its mapping fleet can’t go, and you can fill in those holes yourself with your very own Street View camera kit. Imagine being able to give total strangers an interactive…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Take a Trippy Google Maps Road Trip Around This Tiny World

Looking to get away this Summer but your budget won’t take you farther than a couple of blocks from your apartment? Just do what artist ‘A Ghost Train’ did with their music video for Chemin Vert and let Google Maps take you on a mind-warping trip around the world. The frenetic pace of the video…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Iran v. Google Inc. Is Your WTF Lawsuit of the Night

In what was meant to have been a peace-keeping move, Google may have inadvertently brought upon itself the wrath of Iran in its entirety. And now the otherwise mighty corporation is facing one rather intimidating lawsuit. All of this, mind you, over a Google Maps omission. No, really. Apparently, whoever is in charge of labeling…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Report: Apple Is Dropping Google Maps from iOS 6

Apple hasn’t really needed Google maps for a while now, but until now it’s continued to lean on the service to power iOS’s Maps app. 9to5mac is reporting that Apple will drop Google’s mapping service in iOS 6 in favor of an entirely in-house system. https://gizmodo.com/why-apple-doesnt-need-google-maps-anymore-5891562 According to 9to5’s sources, the experience with the new…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Dutch Have the Weirdest Google Maps Censorship

The Netherlands have given the world so much: pizza, sex tourism, The Hague, Rembrandt, Vermeer—and let’s not Aelbert Cuyp. In the tradition of the last three, the Dutch now serve up the most artistically bizarre Google blurring ever. Architizer brings us artist Mishka Henner’s “Dutch Landscapes” project: (click through for more) As Henner notes, the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

You Can Finally Play Google Map’s Labyrinth Game

Google first teased us with a demo video of its map-based Cube game way back in January. But instead of having it ready to kill time during the cold winter months back in February, the game has only just been released this week. Finally. https://gizmodo.com/google-turns-their-maps-into-a-3d-maze-game-to-promote-5876145 It’s basically exactly like a classic game of Labyrinth, but…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

You Can Take 3D Photo Tours of Famous Places in Google Maps Now

Google Maps and Street View are great for getting the lay of the land, but not so much for actually stopping to look around. Now Google Maps has added 3D photo tours of more than 15,000 popular sites around the world, like St. Mark’s Basilica or the Colosseum. Google Maps already had photos available for…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Zombie survival Google Map allows you to find food and guns for the undead apocalypse

Did you forget to stock up on crossbows and canned beef stew for the inevitable zombie uprising? For shame! Fortunately for those of you who fell asleep during The Ant and the Grasshopper, there’s this handy Map of the Dead, which allows you to plot out the hospitals, gun stores, and grocery stores (among many…

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Google Street View Takes a Virtual Tour of the White House

Fresh from a jaunt along the Rio Negro, Google is digitizing the interior of the First Family’s mansion. Now you can leisurely wander around the White House without being detained by the Secret Service. https://gizmodo.com/armchair-adventurers-can-now-take-a-street-view-tour-of-5895391 Google’s employing the same 360-degree HD cameras as it uses to document museums and art galleries for the Google Art…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Google Maps Quest View turns your commute into an RPG

I don’t know if Google Maps is gifting us with an early April Fool’s Day prank, but I hope Quest View sticks around. Click on the right-hand corner of your Google map to see your local landscape transformed into a pixelated video game map, complete with mountains and trees in the appropriate places. You even…

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New Google Maps Makes Taking the Bus Easier

Public transit riders used to have to just settle for the route that Google Maps dictated—no discussion, no sharing of feelings, nothing. But, the newest iteration of Maps will tailor the route to your preferences while looking gorgeous on Ice Cream Sandwich. With version 6.5, Maps now allows the user to select his preferred method…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Why Apple Doesn’t Need Google Maps Anymore

The new version of iPhoto doesn’t seem to use Google Maps for the map features in Journals and Slideshows. It’s a small departure, sure, but it signals a much bigger play. Because thing is, Apple doesn’t really need Google Maps anymore. And it’s only a matter of time until it severs those ties completely. To…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

This Hoarder’s House Is So Messy and Dirty You Can See It From Google Maps

I still find it hard to believe that hoarding is a thing but then I remember people are weird and crazy. Like Richard Baker, a man who’s collected, held on to and hoarded so much stuff that you can see it all from Google Maps. It’s unbelievable, really. Look at it the Google Maps! Dude…

Tech News Casey Chan

Nukemap allows you to drop famous bombs all over Google Maps

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you blew up the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated smack dab in your living room? Thanks to science historian Alex Wellerstein and his handy Nukemap, you can ponder no longer. This grimly fascinating website allows you to drop everything from Fat Man to Minutemen I warheads…

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According to Google Maps, Mary Poppins is Doctor Who

Should you visit Roald Dahl Plass on Google Maps, you will notice a jovial waving woman. She resembles a nanny who adheres to the philosophy that a small heap of sweetener allows medication to travel effortlessly down the gullet in a manner that most satisfactory. This appearance has not been lost to Tumblr user FireFlyAstoria,…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Visit The Village from The Prisoner on Google Maps

And by The Prisoner we mean the 1967 “Patrick McGoohan tooling around in a Lotus 7 Prisoner,” not the 2009 TV miniseries nobody particularly enjoyed. In the Welsh county of Gwynedd, you can visit the faux-Mediterranean Portmeirion resort, which served as the shooting location for the cult classic television series. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-iconic-stylish-and-just-plain-wacky-opening-5741823 45 years later, much…

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Is a Google Contractor Trying to Destroy OpenStreetMap? (UPDATED)

Well, this is bad. OpenStreetMap, the Wikipedia of world maps, has been vandalized, with someone deliberately screwing up its data. Worse, the offending IP addresses seem to be coming from a set belonging to Google India. Careful where you drive. According to a blog entry at OpenGeoData.org: Two OpenStreetMap accounts have been vandalizing OSM in…

Tech News Brent Rose

Google Turns Their Maps Into a 3D Maze Game To Promote Google+

Social gaming was a big part of Facebook’s success, so in a continued effort to get more people using Google+, the search giant has created a promo video for an upcoming game that turns their maps into a playable labyrinth. I actually adore these types of maze games, and they’re particularly fun on motion sensitive…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Google’s Updated Street View of Fukushima Makes Me Want to Cry

Just look at the destruction. Seaside towns transformed into inland mountains of rubble. Google’s traveled some 44,000 kilometers through tsunami-ravaged Japanese countryside to digitally archive the immense damage. Be sure to have a hanky at the ready when exploring. The search giant has delivered on a promise it made in July to obtain updated photos…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Mad Men Map Shows You Where Don Drank and Dined

This DIY Street View Kit Is Your Very Own Google Map Maker

Take a Trippy Google Maps Road Trip Around This Tiny World

Iran v. Google Inc. Is Your WTF Lawsuit of the Night

Report: Apple Is Dropping Google Maps from iOS 6

The Dutch Have the Weirdest Google Maps Censorship

You Can Finally Play Google Map’s Labyrinth Game

You Can Take 3D Photo Tours of Famous Places in Google Maps Now

Zombie survival Google Map allows you to find food and guns for the undead apocalypse

Google Street View Takes a Virtual Tour of the White House

Google Maps Quest View turns your commute into an RPG

New Google Maps Makes Taking the Bus Easier

Why Apple Doesn’t Need Google Maps Anymore

This Hoarder’s House Is So Messy and Dirty You Can See It From Google Maps

Nukemap allows you to drop famous bombs all over Google Maps

According to Google Maps, Mary Poppins is Doctor Who

Visit The Village from The Prisoner on Google Maps

Is a Google Contractor Trying to Destroy OpenStreetMap? (UPDATED)

Google Turns Their Maps Into a 3D Maze Game To Promote Google+

Google’s Updated Street View of Fukushima Makes Me Want to Cry

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