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Win a Bike with Google Maps

Category: Google Maps | Mar 11, 2010

Google’s Share Your Ride SweepstakesTo celebrate today’s release of Biking Directions on Google Maps, Google are giving away a new bike to the lucky winner of the Share Your Ride Sweepstakes.To have a chance of winning a voucher worth $2,500 USD, for use at American Cyclery, all you have to do is write a message on Twitter which includes the hashtag #bikewithgoogle, before 12:00:00 pm PST on

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Street View Goes UK Crazy

Category: Google Maps | Mar 11, 2010

Google Maps have released a huge Street View update for the UK. Reports over the last couple of days have been hinting at around 96% coverage of UK roads and it certainly looks like that today’s release is approaching near total coverage of UK roads.No, not India, but Brighton PavilionBath Royal Crescent St Michael’s MountMy Tiny House in London! – now who do I sue?Eilean Donan CastleThe last

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Google Maps Unveils Bike Directions

Category: Google Maps | Mar 11, 2010

Biking DirectionsGoogle has today unveiled Bike Directions for Google Maps. This eagerly anticipated function gives turn by turn biking directions (currently in the USA only).To use the new biking directions you need to click on the ‘Get Directions’ link in Google Maps and choose the ‘Bicycling’ option from the drop down menu. When you select the ‘Bicycling’ option the map view will change to

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Street View for Hong Kong & Macau

Category: Google Maps | Mar 10, 2010

As well as today’s huge update to Street View in the UK Google have also unveiled Street View in Hong Kong and Macau.The Macau TowerStatue of Guan Yin, MacauMiu Fat Buddhist MonasteryWestern MarketTing Kau Bridge________________

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Google’s New Geocoding Web Service

Category: Google Maps | Mar 10, 2010

Google Geocoding Web ServiceGoogle have today announced a new Geocoding Web Service. Geocoding is the process of converting postal addresses into geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude), so that you can place markers on a Google Maps mashup.The new geocoding service enables the precaching of geocoded results so that developers can cache the results on a server, and serve the locations to

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FourSquare Comments on Google Maps

Category: Google Maps | Mar 10, 2010

FourWhereFourWhere is a really cool Google Maps mashup that allows you to find reviews and comments from FourSquare about places around you. So, for example, if you’re looking for a place that serves great coffee, you can use FourWhere to find cafes and restaurants nearby and read reviews by Foursquare users.FourWhere allows you to click on a Google Map and get nearby comments and venues that

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Protovis Visualisation Tool & Google Maps

Category: Google Maps | Mar 10, 2010

The Stanford Visualisation Group’s ‘Protovis’ is an open source graphical tool for visualising data. The Protovis website includes a couple examples of the tool using Google Maps.Minard’s NapoleanCharkes Minard was a pioneer of the use of graphics in engineering and statistics. Probably his most famous creation was a flow map showing Napoleon’s disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. His map

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Historical Videos & Photos on Google Maps

Category: Google Maps | Mar 10, 2010

Back in the DayThis Google Maps mashup presents a number of historical photographs and videos on Google Maps. The map allows you to zoom in on a location and view photographs and videos from the past and compare them with the same view as seen in Google Maps Street View.The map includes a number of quick zoom links below the map which will zoom the map to the chosen city. To view a photo or video

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Tracking Milk with Google Maps

Category: Google Maps | Mar 10, 2010

Where is My Milk From?If you want to buy local dairy produce, whether for environmental reasons or to support your local economy, you should check out Where is My Milk From.The site allows you to enter the dairy codes from the packaging from milk, yoghurt, chocolate milk, soy milk, organic milk, and cottage cheese and see where the produce comes from on a handy Google Map.The codes printed on

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Test Drive a Porsche with Google Maps

Category: Google Maps | Mar 10, 2010

To the Point. The New Porsche CayennePorsche are using the Google Maps API and the Panoramio API to promote the new Cayenne. The new promotional site from Porsche allows you to virtually test drive a new Cayenne, with the help of Google Maps.The site allows you to choose the Porsche model you would like to try and then select a route for your test drive. You are then presented with a personalised

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