MetaFilter posts tagged with map and google

Our long international nightmare is over.

panaceanot — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:05:00 -0800

Google Maps App by Google for Apple's iOS is now available. It features turn-by-turn voice navigation and streetview. It's a welcome end to "Map-gate". Recently, an Australian police website posted a cautionary warning about not relying on Apple's mapping service. Hacker news meta discussion. Australia's national broadcaster ABC has also reported concerns by police about Google's mapping system. The good news is that iOS (6) users now have two 'free' turn-by-turn voice navigation apps to use. Redundancy generally being a good thing. (Pre-empting mod intervention... please keep comments constructive please?)

Tantalizing hints of the world beyond the virtual

blasdelf — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:13:29 -0800

Languages of the World (Wide Web) — Google researchers graph cross-language links on the web, and "see a surprisingly clear map of Europe and Asia"

I got the whole world in my hands...

Rhaomi — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:27:51 -0800

The official Google Earth plugin is one free download that makes all sorts of cool stuff possible in your browser. There's a full screen version of the program (complete with underwater views and 3D buildings) which can be searched by entering queries at the end of the URL. There's a framed version with support for layers, historical imagery, day/night cycles, and the Google Sky starmap. Less useful but more fun are Google's collection of "experiments" demonstrating the possibilities of the Earth API, including a "Geo Whiz" geography quiz, an antipode locater, a 3D first-person view of San Francisco, a virtual route-follower, and MONSTER MILKTRUCK!, a crazy fun driving simulator that lets you careen a virtual milk truck through the Googleplex campus, ricochet off the Himalayas, or explore any other place you care to name. Lots more can be found in the Google Earth Gallery -- highlights include a look at mountaintop removal mining, a real-time flight tracker, a guide to trails and outdoor recreation, a 360 panorama catalog, geotagged Panoramio photos, and the comprehensive crowdsourced Google Earth Community Layer. And while it's too large to view online, don't miss loading the Metafilter user location map into a desktop version of Google Earth! Controls for the plugin: left click and drag: pan right click and drag: rotate/smooth zoom scroll wheel: zoom into/away from cursor scroll wheel click and drag: rotate around point double left/right click: zoom in/out WASD/arrow keys: pan Shift+WASD/arrow keys: rotate/tilt camera +,-: zoom in/out

Expenses Mashup

djgh — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:20:11 -0800

Following Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's expenses claim for pornographic films watched by her husband, which came hot on the heels of an investigation into expenses claims for MPs' second homes, the Guardian has published data on each MPs' claims. Now, it's been combined with data from They Work For You to create a map showing MPs' expenses claims, revealing interesting anomalies.
An investigation into MPs' expenses is forthcoming. [Previously]

Antipode Map.

loquacious — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:49:35 -0800

Antipode Map. Find where the other side of the planet is instantly. Note that if you if you actually do manage to dig a tunnel through to the other side and jump in it will take you 42 minutes to get there.

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).

Find The Landmark

Vidiot — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:28:25 -0800

Find the Landmark: A Google Maps Game

Make your own annotated multimedia Google map

JPowers — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:42:56 -0800

If you liked the Craigslist/Google Maps combo, you'll be happy to hear that the boys and girls over at Engadget have a tutorial on how to make your own annotated multimedia Google map. Pretty sweet!