May 22nd | I’ll Name that Mountain in One

Street View Quiz is a series of quiz questions based on Google Maps Street View. In each quiz question you are presented with a Street View and then have to [...]

May 22nd | “Coming Home” by Wisconsin student wins U.S. 2013 Doodle 4 Google competition

After 130,000 submissions and millions of votes cast, Sabrina Brady of Sparta, Wisc. has been named the 2013 U.S. Doodle 4 Google National Winner. Her doodle, “Coming Home,” will be [...]

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Top Charts in Google Trends—The most searched people, places and things

Ever wonder what the world is searching for? With Google Trends, you can see what’s hot right now, and also explore the history and geography of a topic as it [...]

Street View from Moore, Oklahoma

The New York Times have created two evocative custom Street View images of the devastion caused by the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma -Before and After: 360° Views From Moore. The [...]

The Polygon Masking Wizard

I’ve long been a fan of Vasile Cotovanu’s polygon masking effect that allows you to highlight a particular area on Google Maps. Vasile has now released a wizard app that [...]

Finding Food Trucks with Google Maps

Street Food App is a desktop, iOS and Android app for finding food trucks in a number of US and Canadian cities. Currently the Street Food App can help you [...]

Congratulations to the 2013 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholars

Dr. Anita Borg revolutionized the way we think about technology and worked to dismantle the barriers that keep women and minorities from entering the computing and technology fields. In her [...]

20 More Museums Added to Google Art

The Google Art Project is an amazing collection of museums, art galleries and works of art that can all be viewed with Google Maps Street View. Today Google has added [...]

The Many Faces of Google Maps

Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon that leads us to see familiar objects in random patterns. For example, when we look at aerial imagery of the Earth we might think we [...]

Tech Maps Around the World

Companies Near Me is a Google Map of tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. The map includes options to filter the companies displayed on the map by location [...]


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