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Slick new interface for Bing Maps Streetside views
A few months ago Microsoft released a video demo’ing its plans for Streetside – immersive street level photography in Bing Maps. These changes have now gone live in Bing Maps beta. Gone are the Google Street View-like 360 degree bubbles … Continue reading
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Tagged Bing Maps, Google Maps, Micorosoft, Panorama, Street View, Streetside
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Map of newspapers around the world
Who said newspapers were on the verge of becoming extinct ? Newspaper Map is an impressive Google Maps mash-up which has found and located over 10,000 from around the world. Map design purists will probably cringe at the cluttered appearance, … Continue reading
What real estate agents don’t tell you
Trulia’s impressive new price reductions map visualizes real estate sales by zip code area. The map provides market intelligence for both home-buyers and sellers, displaying information about how quickly property prices drop, by how much, and the likelihood of a … Continue reading
Country borders redrawn in Google Maps
Inside Costa Rica points to a recent alteration in the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua in Google Maps. The earlier version labelled the long-disputed Calero Island as Nicaraguan. Some sources claim this mapping ‘error’ led directly to the Nicaraguan … Continue reading
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Tagged Borders, Costa Rica, Germany, Google Maps, Netherlands, Nicaragua
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End of the real world sightings experiment
Sadly, Google’s real world sightings experiment (aka the April Fools joke), has come to an end. The mystical creatures that suddenly appeared last week in Google Maps and Google Earth are no longer to be found. To preserve them for … Continue reading
Live train locations in the Netherlands
A great example of the power of public services opening up data for independent developers to build applications with. NS, Netherlands Railways opens up its live and planned schedules. Just one day later someone creates a map showing live locations … Continue reading
Monsters in Google Maps
Strange creatures have suddenly started appearing in Google Maps. A pink elephant near the Googleplex, a narwahl in London, a giant red lobster in Boston, Green Dragon in Germany and the Loch Ness monster! Check out this map of those … Continue reading
Explore historic sites in Italy and France with Google Street View
Google goes off-road again in newly released photos taken from the Street View trike, with some impressive panoramas taken inside and around UNESCO listed historic and archaeological sites in Italy and France. The Colosseum in Rome: Emperor Augustus’ palace on … Continue reading
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