Tag: GOOGLE MAPS

We often click around Google Maps imagining how it would be to drive through San Francisco like 'Bullit,' or through Paris like Claude Lelouch in 'C'était un Rendezvous.' Directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion get us one step closer with their animated high-speed car chase video (after the break) "filmed" from the perspective of Google's satellite view. For you gamers, the clip may ...

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. Not a day goes by without Google introducing something new, and today it's Labs in Google Maps. The new features let you rotate your map, play a country ...

Share Digging up hilarious, candid shots captured on Google Street View has quickly become one of our favorite online pastimes. But as much as we love watching an unsuspecting weirdo suddenly become digitally immortalized for all the world to see, a couple of dudes in Norway may have just orchestrated the greatest Google Maps hoax ever. As BoingBoing reports, photos recently captured by ...

Share Google Street View can take you down almost any street in America, and through just about every major city worldwide. But Street View stops right where its name implies -- in the street. That might be changing though, if a source that e-mailed the blog, Search Engine Land, is to be believed. New York City nut and candy shop, Oh Nuts, e-mailed Search Engine Land claiming a representative ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Man, free-market competition is awesome. Verizon has already made some smartphone noise with its announcement that it would offer Google Maps navigation as a free, default service on the Droid phone. Nokia is following that lead and will also be providing a free, global navigation system with all of its smartphones. [From: ...

Don't be fooled by all the pretty colors and aromatic bouquets -- the world of floristry can be pretty cutthroat. Just ask any rose retailer in Napier County, New Zealand, where one florist has admitted to changing her competitors' listed information on Google Maps as a way to undercut them. According to Stuff, Kendra Drinkwater, who runs a flower business out of her home, recently pleaded ...

Having conquered general Web searches, e-mail, video, and advertising, Google is now trying to become a one-stop repository for all your flu information needs. You can already look up information about general flu trends, and track outbreaks of the swine flu, so it only makes sense that the next step would pertain to prevention. Google has partnered with the Department of Health and Human ...

So here's an interesting mystery. How did a town that doesn't exist in reality find itself nestled in an empty green field between two actually real towns in Lancashire, U.K. on Google Maps? Theories are plentiful, but is seems no one knows the true origins of Argleton -- the town that wasn't there. If you search Google for Argleton, U.K. you'll turn up plenty of results for businesses, real ...

Verizon has some powerful new ammunition for its anti-iPhone attack campaign. Considering a public statement made today by Google, Verizon's newest anti-Apple ad will likely read, "iDon't have free, default GPS." That's right, the rumored Google Maps Navigation service is officially for real, and Android 2.0 software will debut first on Verizon's Motorola DROID. According to Google's ...

There's no better way to help folks understand something complex than with stop-motion animation. For example, just watch this whimsical clip from Google Japan that explains just how the search giant's Street View feature works. The clip stars a mind-bogglingly cute guy (with a camera for a head) cruising through an idyllic wood-block neighborhood and snapping shots for Street View. When he ...

Philip Garrido is, to put it mildly, a creepy dude. (We prefer to describe him as a tad 'rapey' looking). Everything surrounding the case of the confessed kidnapper, rapist, and now suspected serial killer is unsettling. The case gets truly bizarre and horrifying when you start looking at all of the online elements. The most immediately disturbing, and most revealing, is Garrido's blog -- Voices ...

We can't read Japanese, and using Google Translate is a bit like reading poetry written by a stoned Yoda, so we're left trying to piece together what's going on here from a bunch of photos of people standing next to giant "pins" a la Google Maps. Our assumption? Either Google has decided that the next frontier in information sharing isn't the Internet, or it's trying to locate the best places to ...

People have been using Google Earth to find all sorts of crazy things: secret military installations, marijuana crops, sunken ships, and pools for "dipping." Thieves have even used the satellite imaging app to seek out lead roof tiles. So it should come as no surprise that other criminals are now making use of the tool to steal fish. (Well, maybe kind of surprising.) According to the Telegraph, ...

If you find that figuring out and visualizing the exact location of an event or place referenced in the Bible has you wishing for a 1000 B.C. version of Google Maps, you're now in luck. The swath of land along the Mediterranean Sea, where many stories in the Bible take place, has changed hands, names, and borderlines enough times to confuse even the most zealous biblical geographer. However, a ...

Tom Berge, a builder from Sutton, England, has been using Google Earth as a treasure-seeking tool, of sorts. While other Google hunters before have claimed to find lost ships or even Atlantis, Berge pursued a more tangible type of booty. Using the popular map application, Berge would canvass nearby areas and identify buildings whose roofs consisted of valuable lead tiles. An unidentified ...