Google maps puts a new spin on Monopoly board game

Online Maps: Everyman Offers New Directions

By: kinlly

Mr. Hintz, a 62-year-old engineer who lives in Berkeley, Calif., has tweaked the locations of more than 200 business listings and points of interest in cities across the state, sliding an on-screen place marker down the block here, moving another one across the street there. Farther afield, he has mapped parts of Cambodia and Laos, where he ...

22 days ago

Android 1.6 & Google Maps Navigation

By: mobilenewsnow

Well, if you happen to have the Motorola Droid then this post isn't really all that important to you, If you have a T-Mobile G1 or T-Mobile My Touch 3G, then this is going to be of interested to you. According to Google Mobile Blog they have Google Maps Navigation running on Android 1.6. Well for those of you that don't know what Google Maps ...

14 days ago

Microsoft's BING Maps Will Bring Google Map's To Shame

By: RaulDeSouza

The beta version of Microsoft’s Bing search engine maps feature could well give Google Maps a run for its money, Jason Kincaid writes for TechCrunch. The new feature challenges Google on every front: Streetside, the answer to Street View, functions similarly but uses 3D modeling to provide a seamless user experience. And the map is fully ...

6 days ago

Google faces court action in Switzerland over Street View

By: TauseefAhmed

Switzerland yesterday called a halt to Google's seemingly unstoppable drive to map and photograph the whole world. The country's privacy watchdog is taking the search engine company to court over its free service that shows panoramic street-level pictures of 100 global cities. Data protection commissioner Hanspeter Thuer wants Google to ...

26 days ago