Google Lat Long Blog: Getting From ‘here To There’ With My Location In Google Maps

When getting directions on Google Maps, we suggest an origin or destination after you type the first few characters. But, we want to save you even more time by eliminating the need to type your current address each time. Today you can start using ‘My Location’ as a starting or ending point for your directions using the familiar ‘blue dot’ found in Google Maps for mobile.

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Google Lat Long Blog: Getting from ‘Here to there’ with My Location in Google Maps

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Google Geo Developers Blog: 5 Great Maps... That Are Just Great!

Each month I try to focus on 5 great maps within a certain theme, but this month Google Geo developers have really outdone themselves and I’ve been blown away by a flurry of great new Maps API applications across the board. I’ve been especially impressed by the new uses I’ve seen of Styled Maps, Fusion Tables, and our new Places API.

InstaEarth

Instagram is an exciting photography tool, but what really takes Instagram to the next level are applications like InstaEarth from Modea. InstaEarth is an easy way to search for and discover Instragram users and photos on a map. The application makes use of the Places API with Autocomplete to help users to search around a landmark or address. From InstaEarth, “InstaEarth is a way to discover and view beautiful Instagram photography taken around the world. View your feed, friends' feeds, popular photos, or navigate the map and explore the world through the eyes of Instagrammers everywhere.”

TeleGeography - Submarine Cable Map

When you make a phone call or send an email abroad, most of the time that data travels by way of submarine cables. Submarine cables are the backbone of the global economy, so it’s fascinating to spend time exploring a map that shows where these cables are located. In addition to being a really interesting, fun, and a great looking map, this map is also technically savvy application. Each line representing a submarine cable is clickable and when selected grays out the other cables for better visibility. The map also uses Styled Maps to help the cables stand out better and Fusion Tables to help manage the data on the back-end.

DART St. Louis

There are two things I love to geek out on: maps and photography. That’s why I love this map from DART St. Louis. From their website, “In April 2011 over 250 creative St. Louisans gathered to throw darts at a huge map of the City of St. Louis. Participants then had one month to visit the area where their dart landed and make a photograph. The resulting collection of photographs shows a snapshot of St. Louis as it is today, one random block at a time.”

Berliner Morgenpost - Berlin Elections Map

Last month I wrote a post about a 5 Great Maps from Germany and this month we have yet another great map from Germany. Using Fusion Tables, Berliner Morgenpost mapped out the results of the September 2011 Berlin elections. Voting districts are colored coded by which political party received the majority of votes. Additionally, you can click on any one of the voting districts which will display an infowindow with a chart of the full voting results. This an excellent example of Google Maps API supporting the democratic process and bringing better transparency to government.

Dodge Journey Search

To promote the new Dodge Journey, Dodge is running a competition on YouTube where users can win one of three brand new Dodge Journeys. Video clues are released on YouTube to help users track down the secret location of the vehicle and if they find it, they own it. The clues are related to places in the real world, so users can rely on Google Maps and Places to help them figure out where the car is located. The Maps API serves as the hub of information for this competition and uses Styled Maps to match Dodge branding along with the Places API with Autocomplete to help users follow up on clues.

Posted by Carlos Cuesta, Geo APIs Product Marketing Manager

Google Geo Developers Blog: 5 Great Maps... That are just great!

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Slashgeo: 4 Maps

4maps.org is an interesting web site offering the ability to view four maps in synchronised mode.

It is possible to swicth between different maps or to display only two maps side by side. The javascript code can be easily downloaded and modified to add other map sources.

Nice to compare maps or to see your destination from multiple angles.

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Slashgeo: 4 maps

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Bing Maps Road Map Style Update Goes Live!

Bing Maps team has released a dozen of changes to base road map style. "The new style is designed to communicate more important information at a glance. We have just finished rolling out our English version of this new style, and you will see French, Flemish, German, Italian, and Spanish rolling out over the next week or so," revealed Bing Maps team.

Bing Maps Road Map Style Update Goes Live!

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Google Lat Long Blog: “Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android

(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)

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Google Lat Long Blog: “Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android

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Sony Developer Network ‘Source Code’ and Sony BMG’s ‘Internal Network Maps’ Leaked

Sony has been caught on the wrong end of a hackers agenda for the past many weeks. The continued attacks on Sony have unveiled a number of their key online servers being unsecured.

Sony Developer Network ‘Source Code’ and Sony BMG’s ‘Internal Network Maps’ Leaked

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16th-Century Maps vs. 21st-Century Satellite Images

On The Atlantic’s website, a slideshow comparing modern-day satellite images of cities with city maps from the 1572 Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Braun and Hogenberg. It’s not as effective as you might think: the atlas plates haven’t been georeferenced (some of them are bird’s-eye illustrations rather than top-down maps), so the images aren’t aligned. Via GIS Lounge.

16th-Century Maps vs. 21st-Century Satellite Images first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on May 2, 2011. Copyright © 2011 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

16th-Century Maps vs. 21st-Century Satellite Images

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16th-Century Maps vs. 21st-Century Satellite Images

16th-Century Maps vs. 21st-Century Satellite Images

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Maps and the City

Marleen's Maps and the City: a new map blog that might be worth keeping an eye on....

Maps and the City

Backlink: http://www.maproomblog.com/2011/02/maps_and_the_city.php

Maps and the City

Marleen’s Maps and the City: a new map blog that might be worth keeping an eye on.

Maps and the City first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on February 18, 2011. Copyright © 2011 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

Maps and the City

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Location Extension-enabled Ads Comes To Google Maps

Today, Google introduces a way for "location extension-enabled ads" to show directly on the map. "We'll be integrating information from ads with location extensions into the Place Search map on Google.com. On the map, your location will be marked with a distinctive blue pin. With the new format, we expect potential customers to be able [...]

Location Extension-enabled Ads Comes To Google Maps

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Hotpot Friends’ Recommendations Comes To Google Maps

Google Hotpot, local recommendations engine has received a new feature that makes it easy to stay up to date with the latest place recommendations from your Hotpot friends added to the Google Maps home page.

Hotpot Friends’ Recommendations Comes To Google Maps

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Online Maps as Popular Entertainment

An article in The New York Times Magazine looks at online maps as popular entertainment: “[T]he really interesting stuff comes not from the massive compilation of information by a giant corporation” — i.e., Google — “but rather from the creative projects of smaller entities that find interesting ways to mine and tweak that information.”

Online Maps as Popular Entertainment first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on December 31, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

Online Maps as Popular Entertainment

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Second Edition of Making Maps Coming Next Year

This is interesting: a second edition of John Krygier’s guide to map design, Making Maps, is coming out in February or March of next year. I reviewed the first edition way back in March 2006. John Krygier says that this a major revision: “This is no weenie update: Denis and I ruthlessly reorganized and rethought every bit of content in the book. I then redesigned the entire book and spent the better part of eight months producing it. We both think it’s a much better book.” Krygier includes sample pages demonstrating this on the blog entry announcing the new edition.

Second Edition of Making Maps Coming Next Year

Backlink: http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2010/12/second_edition.php

Ubisense myWorld Using Google Maps API Premier to Extend the Rich of GIS Data

Peter Batty from Ubisense updates tells us about how their product, "myWorld" is using Google Maps API Premier to make sense of complicated GIS data. "myWorld is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product that brings the ease of use and performance of Google Maps to the challenge of presenting these complex network maps in a way which's simple to use. myWorld uses Google Maps JavaScript API V3 with Google Maps API Premier."

Ubisense myWorld Using Google Maps API Premier to Extend the Rich of GIS Data

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Biking Directions Added to Google Maps for Canada ‘Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Waterloo’ and More!

Google expanded "biking directions" to in Canada to 'Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Kelowna, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Gatineau and Waterloo.'

Biking Directions Added to Google Maps for Canada ‘Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Waterloo’ and More!

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Google Lat Long Blog: Gearing up: Biking directions added to Google Maps for Canada

Earlier this year, we added biking directions to Google Maps for the United States, enabling users to more easily find their way when they’d like to take a two-wheeled alternative to walking, driving or public transit. Today we’re expanding biking directions to select regions in Canada: Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Kelowna, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Gatineau and Waterloo.

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Google Lat Long Blog: Gearing up: Biking directions added to Google Maps for Canada

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The History of U.S. Road Maps

On The Chronicle of Higher Education's Postcards blog, Lawrence Biemiller has a chat with James Akerman about the history of road maps in the United States....

The History of U.S. Road Maps

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Google Lat Long Blog: In Africa, citizen cartographers tell their stories through their maps

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Google Lat Long Blog: In Africa, citizen cartographers tell their stories through their maps

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Friday Geonews: ESRI's Open Source Geoportal Server, Yahoo Local Offers, REST Explained Again, MapQuest My Maps, and much more

Here's the weekly batch of geonews, finally on a regular Friday.On the ESRI front:

• Recently, ESRI open sourced the ESRI Geoportal Server. Some twitter users were quick to mention that you still need ArcGIS Server software to use the Geoportal Server. To me, that's still a nice step. Their definition of a geoportal: "A geoportal is a gateway to Web-based geospatial resources, enabling users to discover, view and access geospatial information and services made available by their providing organizations. Likewise, data providers can use the geoportal to make their geospatial resources discoverable, viewable, and accessible to others."
• The popular blog SpatiallyAdjusted shares some elements that could be improved about the ArcGIS 10 user interface

On the open source front:

• O'Reilly discusses a new open source software called WEAVE (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment), which obviously include a mapping component
• If you're into FDO, you'll be happy to learn of the new SequentialProcess for batch mode processing
• QGIS gets new label tools
• Remember Polymaps? The open source mapping framework Polymaps is now integrated into GeoCommons

In the miscellaneous category:

• REST and RESTful was widely discussed in the past few years in the geospatial community, including within ESRI, the open source and OGC rings. Thanks to this entry named Richardson Maturity Model: steps toward the glory of REST, I think I finally correctly understand what REST is about! ;-) (sorry I don't remember how I ended up on that article)
• TMR informs us MapQuest launched My Maps last June, with the same name of the similar feature provided on Google Maps, basically allowing you to save and share user-created maps
• SS shares a long perspective entry named What forces are at play in the evolution of geospatial industry sectors?
• NAVTEQ acquires the 3D modeling company named PixelActive
• APB informs us Yahoo has launched a new service called Local Offers: "that it said will give users information about local merchants along with coupons and information on deals at stores in their neighborhoods."
• Kurt shares interesting thoughts on GIS, followed by What is GIS? A workflow definition

In the maps category:

• Here's the evolution of active Facebook users by region
• A nice entry on The Human Development Index in Africa and Across the World
• SS shares an entry named Mapping Opportunity in America
• While I was aware of it, we mentioned mentioned it yet. The GEB discusses the USGS "Earth as Art" beautiful collection of Landsat imagery

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Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/11/19/Friday-Geonews-ESRIs-Open-Source-Geoportal-Server-Yahoo-Local-Offers-REST-Explained-Again