With the UK mash-up day coming up at the end of the week, this blog post by J. LeRoy is very timely. It reports on the response of the Fire Deptartment of Seattle to a google maps mash-up of 911 calls, the dept. has now removed the feed replacing it with a jpeg image. The …
So the mac hackers have been taking apart the latest release of iPhoto and have found details of potential GPS integration and closer ties with Google Maps. MacTelChat reports that there are a number of hidden references in the package which suggest that photos may in the near future be organised by location and mapped …
Goggles is a flash based ‘Flight simulator” that lets you fly around Google Maps imagery. Great fun, don’t fly to low, but who knows what licensing issues this throws up 🙂 Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
When I worked in the software industry the term “sleeping with the bear” was often used to describe the relationship between the company I worked for and the partners and independent software vendors who all together provided solutions based on my companies core technology. The analogy follows that it is all very pleasant sleeping with …
Ok so what does this mean, Google are to offer a fully supported version of Google Maps for Enterprise use, with the promise to offer stable cartography – e.g no Golden Arches. Mmm.. I need to think about this, along with a international address geocoding service are google now moving more into the “traditional” enterprise …
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Thanks to my old pal Berik, for the link to this video , a spoof ad for Google Maps ? So good it could be real or then again is this another example of a great viral campaign..
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