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iPod Touch Denied Street View, Other Google Maps Upgrades in Firmware 2.2

Our testing has confirmed that iPod Touch users do not get updates to their Google Maps app with firmware 2.2, which, at least on the iPhone, includes the addition of Street View as well as public transit and walking directions. The updated browser interface, podcast downloading and assorted other tweaks are all there, as was…

Tech News John Herrman

Microsoft HQ Listing Hijacked on Google Maps, Briefly Becomes ‘Microsoft Escort Service’

As we become increasingly reliant on location-aware handheld devices, and on GPS or other map-based software services, claiming one’s local search business listing on platforms like Google Maps becomes incredibly important. Why? Well, as was the case with Microsoft’s Redmond HQ over the weekend, if you neglect to take local search seriously, you can easily…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Easily Find Your Polling Place Via Google Maps

If you’ve navigated the tangle of state, city or local election board websites, you know how much they suck. And if you’ve lost the little reminder you get in the mail (my mailbox is full of spiders and credit card offers; I don’t open it), Google has created a custom map to help you find…

Tech News John Mahoney

HookupMaps Should be Called HookerMaps or SerialKillerMaps (NSFW)

I never got into the whole love/sex personal ads thing, but for some reason, the people at HookupMaps think that putting them on a map will actually help people looking to urgently scratch that itch. HookupMaps mixes Google Maps and Craiglist to place the ads in the areas in which they are located, so you…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Ye Olde Google Charts Directions for Columbus’ First Trip

This is how Ye Olde Google Charts would have mapped directions for Christopher Columbus, right before he took on his first trip to India defying the common knowledge of the time: The idea that Earth was flat and had edges with monsters, giant falls, and other terrible things at their end. Funny, because this is…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Google Maps’ New Ads Appear Even In Embarassing Searches

Google just rolled out a new set of ads, making the total number of ad-based revenue streams roughly equal to the number of petabytes they search daily. This one appears at the bottom of the map when you search for a fairly generic topic. After I saw it written up on CNet, I gave it…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

iPhone 2.2 Update Finally Brings Google Street View to Maps?

After being sent out to developers last week promising only “compatibility testing” enhancements, the pre-release version of iPhone software 2.2 is starting to spill its secrets. The folks at Mac Rumors have dug up evidence that appears to indicate Google Maps’ Street View finally making it into the Maps app, after popping up in the…

Tech News John Mahoney

Google Brings Push Gmail, Google Maps Street View, Other Tight Integration to the G1

Android is here, and as to be expected with a Google-made mobile OS, there’s a bit of Google App fanciness going on. In fact, it’s designed with Google Apps in mind so much that whether or not you’re a user of Gmail and other services might determine how useful the phone will be to you.…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Google Maps Mobile App Now Does Full-Screen Street View

Google’s been busy with the Street View drones-and now you can see their tireless work on your phone with today’s new version of the Maps app. Standing on your boring corner, you can full-screen, say, Tokyo’s streets and compare. The new version also adds more accurate geolocations and a few other interface tweaks, which Googler…

Tech News John Mahoney

Tour Infinite Loop With Google Street View

If you’ve ever wanted to take a street tour of the center of the Apple universe, now’s your chance. The Google Street View car has finished making its rounds at Infinite Loop, so you can zoom around like you belong there from your computer chair. There aren’t any pictures of Steve Jobs passed out drunk…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Google Maps Captures Natural Wonders by Photoshop

Geologists and people wasting time on the internet alike have failed to explain this particularly repetitious forest in Holland. A pretty clear result of a lazy/botched clone stamping in Photoshop, we can’t help but wonder what Google covered up here. Government secrets? Cloud interference? A leprechaun lair? No one knows, but stay tuned as we…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Google StreetView Sees Man Passed Out Drunk On Mother’s Lawn

Not content to just capture houses burning and other embarrassing shenanigans in the US, Google StreetView has gone overseas and done the same to a drunk Australian man passed out in his own lawn. Now that man is pissed-not in his pants, but at Google-for the invasion of privacy. https://gizmodo.com/google-streetview-spies-burning-home-probably-microsof-5035201 The story goes that “Bill”…

Tech News Jason Chen

Test Drive a Solar Array’s Wattage Before You Build With RoofRay Google Maps Calculator

Thinking of camping out at Ikea once they start selling those solar panels? While you’re waiting, RoofRay will help you plan exactly how many SUNGLYÄSS units you’ll need, and how much you’ll save. Draw the shape of a prospective solar array on Google Maps’ satellite image of your roof, enter its slope angle, and watch…

Tech News John Mahoney

Windows Mobile And Symbian S60 Get Google Maps Upgrade With Transit Info

Windows Mobile and S60 users get an update to Google Maps this week that includes public transit stops as well as user star ratings for local businesses. The free upgrade shows not just where stops are for particular transit lines but also allows you to incorporate them into building your route. Blackberry users have had…

Tech News Matt Hickey

Sony PMX-M80 Big Touchscreen PMP Packs Maps for Chinese Travellers

Sony’s PMX-M80 is a cute white touchscreen PMP that stuffs some impressive specs in a 4.3-inch frame, a decent size for watching video without killing your eyes. The player has 16GB onboard memory, expandable via Memory Stick, a microphone, Google Maps-like browser with points of interest and your basic (MP4/AVI/WMA/MP3/AAC) codec support. Sadly, you won’t…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Google Maps Adds Walking Directions, Bad Neighborhood Caution

If you drive a car in certain cities, you’re dumb. There, I said it. But that’s how Google Maps assumed everybody locomoted to their destination, until now. Yep! Google Maps finally has an option for step-by-step walking directions. Accounting for the speed difference between your kicks and four-wheeled gas-guzzlers, it estimates covering a mile will…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

BlackBerry Pearl Gets Google Maps with Voice Search

Google has just released a new version of their maps application that supports voice recognition search on the BlackBerry Pearl. That means Pearl users can load Google Maps, hold a side button, say “pizza, i said PIZZA…PEE ZZ UH” and have the application magically find tacos in your immediate vicinity. This upgrade doesn’t look to…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Google Street View Car Drives Into Microsoft Campus, Gets Laughed At By Windows Live Maps

Reader Don sends in this fantastic tip about a Google Street View car actually driving around and taking pictures inside a Microsoft campus. The GooCar—shown here photographed by Microsoftees—wasn’t just covering regular roads, they were going in-between buildings and getting as many angles as they could of the campus. That’s ballsy. What’s even funnier, says…

Tech News Jason Chen

Palm Selling Centro Unlocked for $299, Gets Google Maps with My Location

Already available on the three biggest US carriers, the only way to make the Centro a bigger hit is to sell it unlocked-and that’s what Palm is doing, for $299. It’s only in white, though. You can pick it up online at Palm’s site. Also, starting tomorrow, they’ll be offering Google Maps with My Location…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Caption Contest: The Google Maps Prius Gets a Speeding Ticket

My attempt: “This had better not end up on the internet somehow.” Surely, you can do better. [Treehugger]

Tech News Adam Frucci

iPod Touch Denied Street View, Other Google Maps Upgrades in Firmware 2.2

Microsoft HQ Listing Hijacked on Google Maps, Briefly Becomes ‘Microsoft Escort Service’

Easily Find Your Polling Place Via Google Maps

HookupMaps Should be Called HookerMaps or SerialKillerMaps (NSFW)

Ye Olde Google Charts Directions for Columbus’ First Trip

Google Maps’ New Ads Appear Even In Embarassing Searches

iPhone 2.2 Update Finally Brings Google Street View to Maps?

Google Brings Push Gmail, Google Maps Street View, Other Tight Integration to the G1

Google Maps Mobile App Now Does Full-Screen Street View

Tour Infinite Loop With Google Street View

Google Maps Captures Natural Wonders by Photoshop

Google StreetView Sees Man Passed Out Drunk On Mother’s Lawn

Test Drive a Solar Array’s Wattage Before You Build With RoofRay Google Maps Calculator

Windows Mobile And Symbian S60 Get Google Maps Upgrade With Transit Info

Sony PMX-M80 Big Touchscreen PMP Packs Maps for Chinese Travellers

Google Maps Adds Walking Directions, Bad Neighborhood Caution

BlackBerry Pearl Gets Google Maps with Voice Search

Google Street View Car Drives Into Microsoft Campus, Gets Laughed At By Windows Live Maps

Palm Selling Centro Unlocked for $299, Gets Google Maps with My Location

Caption Contest: The Google Maps Prius Gets a Speeding Ticket

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