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Google Maps Terrorizes Jersey Woman by Designating Her House a State Park

Some people are averse to Google Maps because of privacy. Usually, those fears are a little overblown. But New Jersey resident Laurie Gneiding has reason to fret—Google Maps sent hordes of outdoor enthusiasts to her door. Gneiding lives right on the border of Round Valley State Park, which contains Round Valley Reservoir in the middle.…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Google Maps 5.7 for Android: You Can Finally Use It Offline

To call Google Maps just an app of a day is to do it a disservice. Because it should be app of the day, everyday. It’s earned Lifetime Achievement status. It’s the best app available. And it still gets better. The latest update to Google Maps on Android brings a feature we’ve long been wanting…

Tech News Casey Chan

World of Fourcraft Is a Land Where Risk, Foursquare and Google Maps Collide

Foursquare already has a gamey element to it with achievements (badges) and competition (mayorships), but one group of supernerds took the APIs from Foursquare and Google Maps and reconceptualized the location-sharing service as an IRL game of Risk. According to Mashable, users in NYC can take part are required to pledge allegiance to one of…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Will Apple Launch a Maps and Navigation Service of Their Own?

After finding new mentions of navigation and maps technology in the legal section of iOS 5, MacRumors did some sleuthing and believe Apple is working on their own replacement for Google maps on the iPhone. [MacRumors]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Google Is Streamlining Google Places and Maps with My Places

Up to now, Google users have been able to manage their favorite places and personal maps with a few Google apps. Still, keeping track of them was a little disjointed. Now, Google is making the process simpler with My Places. Before, users could star places in Google Maps, rate them in Google Places, and connect…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Should Google Maps Show You Parts of the World the US Government Blocks?

When I look up my childhood apartment on Google Maps, I see the fences in the park across the street. But if I look up Israel, I get a muddy brown mess—because Congress said so, by law. Give it a try. While most parts of the US (and much of the globe) are filled with…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Have Google Maps Navigation With No Signal Necessary

We live in a day where cell technology is nearly foolproof—until your cell drops the signal. Then you’re screwed. But Google Maps may change this hard fact of life as early as this summer. The rumor comes from an anonymous Dutch telecom executive, quoted by All About Phones. And it says that Google’s planning on…

Tech News Max Behrman

Frustrated Commuters Can Keep Tabs on Their Delayed Bus on Google Maps Now

I long for the day that London’s public-transport actually works, but short of that I’ll just long for the day Google rolls this update out globally. People of Boston, Portland, San Diego and San Francisco—you’re in luck. Two European cities are also included, Madrid and Turin, with the updated version of Google Maps supported by…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

A New Way to Look at the Brain Using Google Maps

Researchers from Brown University have developed a way to view the brain using two dimensional neural maps. With their software, you can navigate the brain the same way you would use a Google Street Map. The benefit to all this being that you can easily spot bundles of neurons (or whatever you’re looking for) without…

Tech News Max Behrman

Google Maps Just Got a Lot Better in Android and iOS Browsers

The mobile browser version Google Maps got a makeover on Android and iOS devices, which makes it alot more like the desktop and native app versions of the service. Now, when you visit maps.google.com on your phone or tablet’s browser and opt-in to share your location, you can use many of the same Google Maps…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Access Denied! 18 Places Google Maps Won’t Let You See

Google has always tried to keep a very open policy with the general public, but it can’t always be entirely forthcoming, as is the case with Google Maps. Google has very little say in what gets censored and what doesn’t, be it for personal privacy or national security. Finding censored objects on Google Maps isn’t…

Tech News Paul Escallier - Maximum PC

Poke Your head Inside Local Spots with Google Business Photos

“Google Business Photos” sounds immensely boring, but, to the contrary, it’ll be incredibly cool, once implemented next week. The idea: Street View for building interiors. So you can see just how divey that gross dive bar across the street is. This makes sense—Bing’s already beat Google to interior-peeking with Photosynth, which allows panoramic interior uploads…

Tech News Sam Biddle

You Can Now Tell Google Maps for Android When They’ve Got the Address Wrong

The latest Google Maps update for Android (5.4.0, if you’re counting) brings along a few new updates, but the ability to tell Google if a listed business or destination isn’t there when using the Navigation service is the kicker. Google also cleverly saves search queries made on a phone, for accessing from another device later…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Make Your Digital Cartography Dreams Come True With Google Map Maker

Have you ever been scouting out—okay, stalking—an area on Google Maps and been frustrated that there’s a giant college campus-sized hole in the map? Now you can do something about it. Google Map Maker is Google’s user-generated-but-content-reviewed map making tool. The service has been made available to 183 countries that didn’t have or give access…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Google Maps Search History Helped Police Link Murder Victim to Alleged Killer

On a July night in 2008, Nancy Cooper went for a run in Cary, North Carolina. She never returned. In October of that same year, her body was discovered and her husband Brad Cooper was charged with her murder. The Smoking Gun? His Google Maps search history. Police believe that in the days prior to…

Tech News Adrian Covert

An Interactive Map With Every War Ever Waged

Give peace a chance! Also, give this thingamajig a chance: Conflict History is an interactive Google Map and timeline packed with information on pretty much every war ever waged. I think I’ve learned more in the last 15 minutes than I did in all the semesters of World History I’ve ever taken combined. [Conflict History…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Google Maps Points You Towards the Nearest EV Charging Station

The dozens of you who own electric vehicles have another tool at your eco-friendly disposal: Google Maps now knows the nearest electric vehicle charging station. Perfectly handy, since it’s not like you can juice up at any local Chevron. [UberGizmo]

Tech News Brian Barrett

Google Maps Navigation Now Directs You Around Traffic

I’ll gladly drive out of my way to avoid the soul-crushing agony of bumper to bumper traffic, and that’s just what a new beta for the Google Maps Navigation Android app will show me how to do. From now on, the first set of directions it spits out will be the fastest in current conditions,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

No One Was Hurt in This Google Maps Plane Crash

Follow this link to a Google Maps shot of Alameda, California, and you’ll see an arresting site: a downed commercial aircraft spewing debris, with its wings snapped into pieces and its hull cut cleanly in half. It looks like a crash perfect enough for a TV show. And in fact that’s just what it was.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Google Maps Update for Android Lets You Bug Friends With Requests to Check-In

Version 5.2 of Google Maps for Android adds two new features: the ability to post your reviews of restaurants etc straight to Twitter (please refrain from spamming your followers, people), but now you can also ask friends to check-in with you using Latitude, so you know when they’ve arrived somewhere. Say you’re in a really…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Maps Terrorizes Jersey Woman by Designating Her House a State Park

Google Maps 5.7 for Android: You Can Finally Use It Offline

World of Fourcraft Is a Land Where Risk, Foursquare and Google Maps Collide

Will Apple Launch a Maps and Navigation Service of Their Own?

Google Is Streamlining Google Places and Maps with My Places

Should Google Maps Show You Parts of the World the US Government Blocks?

Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Have Google Maps Navigation With No Signal Necessary

Frustrated Commuters Can Keep Tabs on Their Delayed Bus on Google Maps Now

A New Way to Look at the Brain Using Google Maps

Google Maps Just Got a Lot Better in Android and iOS Browsers

Access Denied! 18 Places Google Maps Won’t Let You See

Poke Your head Inside Local Spots with Google Business Photos

You Can Now Tell Google Maps for Android When They’ve Got the Address Wrong

Make Your Digital Cartography Dreams Come True With Google Map Maker

Google Maps Search History Helped Police Link Murder Victim to Alleged Killer

An Interactive Map With Every War Ever Waged

Google Maps Points You Towards the Nearest EV Charging Station

Google Maps Navigation Now Directs You Around Traffic

No One Was Hurt in This Google Maps Plane Crash

Google Maps Update for Android Lets You Bug Friends With Requests to Check-In

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