September 2nd | Spanish Google Maps Mashups Round-up

Guifi.netGuifi.net is a free telecommunications network in Spain. The network is composed of peer-to-peer connections. Guifi.net have used Google Maps to show the extent of the network.The map shows all [...]

September 2nd | Over the Rainbow with Google Maps

OMG Rainbows! ♪♫ Google Map’s the only thing / To take you over the rainbow to the land where cartography is King. ♪♫ I love discovering new uses for Google [...]

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Sharing Locations with Google Maps

WhereMarkWhereMark is another start-up trying to break into the Location Based Services market. Using the site’s website, or the iPhone application, users can share and find find local points of [...]

Back to the future: two years of Google Chrome

(Cross-posted from the Google Chrome Blog) Watching the 1985 classic Back to the Future last night, I was struck by how much things can change with time. The main character [...]

Missing Persons on Google Maps

Live Police Appeals MapUK website the Missing List has created a Google Map to display information about missing people in the UK. The data for the map comes from appeals [...]

Google Maps Means Business

Google today announced the release of sponsored map icons in the United States. It is an extension of a pilot project that started in Australia earlier this year. Currently business [...]

Model the world with Google SketchUp 8

It’s been 10 years since the first version of Google SketchUp was released, and there are more people modeling in SketchUp now that we ever could have imagined—over a million [...]

Explore Europe with Eurostar & Google Maps

Europe by EurostarEurostar, the high speed rail link that connects the UK to mainland Europe, have created a new website to highlight some of the great cities that you can [...]

Google Maps for California

Apps for Californians The state of California has partnered with Microsoft, Google and Programmable Web to run an apps contest. The state wants you to develop apps that will enhance [...]

UK Geology on Google Maps

The British Geological Survey have a number of examples of Google Maps created with OpenGeoscience. OpenGeoscience is data that the society has made available free-of-charge for non-commercial private study, research [...]


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