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Google Now Lets You Navigate through User Photos in Street View

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Google has just announced a nice new feature of its Street View service. You know Street View, right? That navigation service whereby you can see real-time images of specific places covered by Google’s roaming vehicle. Now since this vehicle will not be able to cover some hardly accessible areas, thereby rendering them inaccessible via Street View, Google is however doing something to make this possible.

Through the use of user-generated photos which Google is embedding to the Street View layer map of a particular area, you will now be able to explore a particular area similar to other areas which are fully covered by Google vehicle. This will be made possible by two types of orbs which Google is embedding on Street View maps.

In addition Google is also adding a new layer to Google Maps to enable you to get photos using this photo layer.

I was checking this out and it to be really cool. You may not be getting the same interactive elements of Street View, but the panning and zooming feature  is worthy enough of your time.  The navigation is seamless and really gives you a logical way of exploring different locations. And you do that via a familiar Street View interface.

Originally posted on February 26, 2010 @ 7:06 pm

Google bringing free advanced sat-nav to Android-powered cellphones

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Google wants to be your satellite navigation partner, as it announces the power of Google Maps together with some nifty features are coming soon to Android 2.0-powered cellphones.

It believes the feature set it has built in to the turn-by-turn system beat other sat-navs hands down.

These include voice recognition, the ability to enter a whole range of voice or text destinations — including street names, places of interest, and even queries such as “the museum that houses this particular exhibition” — and satellite and street and traffic view while navigating. [Read more…]

Originally posted on October 28, 2009 @ 11:20 am

UKHolsMap.com charts British holidays via Twitter

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UK mobile operator Vodafone has set up a new web site designed to chart where Brits are going on holiday, via the Twitter hashtag #ukhols.

In the last month or so UKHolsMap.com has been active, the top recorded destinations have been New York, Vancouver, Paris, London, St Ives, Barcelona, Seoul, Cyprus, Crete and Istanbul. [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 20, 2009 @ 7:40 am

GOOG-411 adds nearby intersections

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Users of GOOG-411 can now save even more time when trying to find a location as Google a new feature implemented. When asking for a details to a location, the service will also tell you which the nearest intersections are. In the announcement post the example of the Google office in NYC was provided.

You can try it now: call 1-800-466-4411, look up ‘Google in New York’, ask us for more ‘details’, and we’ll tell you that our Chelsea office is ‘near the intersection with West 16th Street’. Unless you’re a seasoned New Yorker, this might very well save you from walking up or down a few blocks.

Intersections are available for most towns and cities in the US and Canada.

Originally posted on May 29, 2009 @ 2:53 pm

Google Hasn’t Submitted a Maps App to Apple

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(Photo credit: Telendro)

To say that the new Apple Maps that came with the release of iOS 6 is a disappointment is a vast understatement. I can’t remember the last time Apple even released an unmitigated disaster as its Maps service. If you’ve read the complaints (of which there are many online) then you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Apple’s misstep has led iOS users to demand the return of Google Maps. Not as a replacement to Apple’s Maps app – because that will never happen – but as a separate app that they can download. There were rumors that Google is already close to releasing the Google Maps app on the App Store. But it looks like this not true. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 25, 2012 @ 10:50 pm