Tag: GOOGLE MAPS

Tonight's First Four games in Dayton, Ohio, will tip off the 2011 NCAA men's basketball tournament. Until then, Google has a remedy for March Madness, offering 3-D virtual tours of the tourney's 14 host arenas. You can get a sneak peek, inside and out, at the places in which all the hoop heartbreak and joy will go down. In addition to the 3-D tours, Google has created a map that pinpoints the ...

Earlier this month, the latest version of Google Maps for Android got teased by Andy Rubin at D: Dive Into Mobile. Today, version 5.0 of the app has landed, and brought with it a host of fancy new features. The most immediately obvious will be the new 3-D view, which allows you to tilt, rotate and zoom the map. For some cities, like New York, when you're zoomed in close enough, the new Maps ...

Last night, Google launched Hotpot, a recommendation engine that is getting baked into Places, and comes loaded in the latest update to Google Maps for Android. Essentially Google's answer to Yelp, Hotpot connects you with friends so that you can share reviews and recommendations of businesses, such as bars and restaurants. The service takes a number of factors into consideration when making a ...

For the third time, Google has managed to misplace the city of Sunrise, Florida, home to 90,000 U.S. citizens and the NHL's Florida Panthers. Despite Sunrise's being a reasonably sizable place with plenty of businesses, the world's most popular search engine can't seem to keep the city in its rightful place: on the east coast of Florida just outside of Fort Lauderdale. For one month this summer, ...

Starting today, you might notice something different about your searches in Google Maps: company logos. After a trial period in Australia and New Zealand, Google is expanding its sponsored map icons program to the States. Bank of America, Target, Public Storage and HSBC will now have their logos, as opposed to generic business icons, displayed in Google Maps to indicate their locations. The ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. This Google Maps hack takes out everything but the location markers and names. Somehow, it's still navigable. [From: xn-slarsteinn-gbb.com, via: Kottke] Mary Roach ...

Hip hop historians will be delighted by The Rap Map, an interactive Google Map that plots the geographic origins of rap lyrics -- from NYC and Atlanta to Chicago and LA. From Cam'ron, 'Bout It Bout It,' referencing East Harlem's Taft housing projects: "Then if you walking through Foster and Taft / Flossing that cash then gangstas put the torch to your ass." ...

If It Was My Home brought the tragedy of the BP oil spill to your backyard by laying an outline of the environmental disaster over a Google Map of your own neighborhood. Dimensions, an experiment created in partnership with the BBC, may have been conceived before the debut of the oil spill-specific site, but they use the same trick to put world and historical events into perspective. ...

Have you all been watching 'Work of Art,' Bravo's latest horrible venture into competitive reality programming? The show -- which pits artists of varying skill, experience and taste against one another for a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum -- asked the contestants this week to make an artwork based on their experience visiting an Audi showroom. (We're just going to gloss over how ridiculous that ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Spotted in Australia on Google Maps: these streets and buildings (above) look suspiciously like USB cords. [From: Neatorama] Our very own Josh Fruhlinger reminisces ...

The Louisiana Senate recently passed a bill requiring a minimum 10-year sentence for any terrorist who uses virtual online maps to plan his or her attack. And no one's really sure why. According to NOLA.com, the bill, proposed by Republican Senator Robert Adley, "defines a 'virtual street-level map' as one that is available on the Internet and can generate the location or picture of a home or ...

After using her BlackBerry to get walking directions from her Google Maps app, Lauren Rosenburg, of Park City, Utah, found herself at the edge of a busy highway. She decided to cross it (since Google told her to), and, as you'd imagine, wasted no time in getting hit by a car. Now, she's asking Google to pay up for giving her dangerous directions. As Fortune reports, Rosenburg has filed a ...

As street art moves closer and closer to the mainstream, is it possible that the changing conditions of its display will shift the style's very nature? British living legend Banksy has lately come to the U.S., "visiting" cities by stenciling up some of his trademark works, which have been fanatically chronicled and archived by his growing fan base. (Lesser-known artists in New York, at least, did ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Whoa! Have you checked out Google Maps lately? The search engine giant recently began to incorporate Google Earth into Maps, resulting in an entirely 3-D environment ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Illustrator Christopher Niemann, uses imagery from Google Maps as a medium to illustrate life lessons, the stock market, and Casablanca. [NYTimes, via: Urlesque] ...