MetaFilter posts tagged with googlemaps

"Crime. Boy, I dunno."

nthdegx — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:54:04 -0800

"Ok, my eyes must be deceiving me. That can't be someone aiming a gun at someone else on Google Maps Street View", says Michael Beck.

Google Maps now integrates with Wikipedia

stbalbach — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:57:29 -0800

Google Maps now integrates with Wikipedia (click "More" tab). Concharto is a geographic wiki for documenting historical events. Flick also has a map service.

"Some images of the spots that gave me the most tingles."

nebulawindphone — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:58:26 -0800

I though documenting my early sex life would be a perfect reason to use Polaroids to do something other than take naked pictures, yet to still play on the sexual identity of the medium. I lived in Alexandria from 1980 to 1999. These were my formative years and they determined the way I dealt with women. A guy documents the spots in his old neighborhood (SFW) where he got kissed, dumped, laid or confused as a kid, and tries to work out "what went wrong." (via, via — both NSFW)

Storytelling with Google Maps

brain_drain — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:34:53 -0800

The 21 Steps is a spy thriller short story that is told using Google Maps. [via mefi projects]

This enormous red circular carriage will never fit onto the tracks!

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:57:51 -0800

Train tracker.

Live anonymous edits to Wikipedia on Google maps

stbalbach — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:25:27 -0800

Live anonymous edits to the English Wikipedia on a Google map in real-time. (The FAQ)

Google Maps and Earth Lights

philomathoholic — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:20:06 -0800

We've seen that one picture of earth at night. And we all know what Google Earth is. But someone has put the two together. Be sure to check out the map overlays, including the dusk map.

Flickrvision

psmealey — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:36:42 -0800

Flickervision (beta). Also, Twittervision.

The world is indeed shrinking

zardoz — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:06:40 -0800

Twittervision is a browser app using Google Maps to show Twitter comments as they happen in (more or less) real time.

Google Maps to include NYC subway stops and building outlines

allterrainbrain — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:49:39 -0800

a Google Maps view of NYC, centered on Central Park Google Maps has started displaying subway stops (with the names of the lines that serve each each stop) in New York City. Clearly this is a work in progress (full building outlines are available only in some parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and some subway stops currently list only one of the multiple trains that serve the stop). Still, this is excellent news not only for natives but also for tourists (whose only subway-map reference may be the significantly, sometimes radically "not to scale" version put out by the MTA).