Posts Tagged ‘Maps’

March 28th, 2011
WrapUp: NASA’s Photoshop Process for Hubble Images, Bigger Windows 7 Taskbar Previews, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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January 7th, 2011
Geotag Your Photos With Google Maps Using GeoSetter

Do you have a bunch of photos that aren't geotagged and haven't found a free program that makes it easy? Let me introduce GeoSetter to you. This awesome app makes geotagging your photos a breeze and also lets you change other EXIF information on images.

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October 5th, 2009
WrapUp: Mozilla Launches PluginCheck Demo, Microsoft Security Essentials Scores a 98.44%, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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October 2nd, 2009
OpenStreetMap: The Wikipedia of Maps

I'm not sure how many of you have decided to take part in the Monopoly City Streets game, but one of my friends pointed out something interesting. The game was promoted as being powered by Google Maps, but looking into the FAQ's reveals that the data is not solely coming from Google.

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June 6th, 2008
Public Transportation Made Easy with Google Maps for Mobile

Just yesterday, Google announced that they have updated Google Maps for Mobile to version 2.2. The big improvement with it this time around is that users will be able to get transit directions for over 40 cities in North America like Chicago, Seattle, and Vancouver and 20 cities around the globe.

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April 30th, 2008
Directions and Street View Combine in Google Maps

Google just made it a little easier for people to get from point A to point B with the help of Street View. Of course we know what Street View is by now, and we know that using Google Maps, users can get directions from a starting point to an ending point. Now Google has combined those two features and in the directions that you receive, you'll see a camera which you can click on.

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March 19th, 2008
Google Maps Gives Editing Rights to Users

Google has decided that they want their users to help make Google Maps as accurate as possible and so they have bestowed upon them editing rights. Now any user who is logged in to their Google account will be able to edit a place on the map, including move the marker. At this point, only those living in the United States, Australia and New Zealand can make edits.

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November 28th, 2007
Google My Location – Look Ma, No GPS!

Google has launched a service called My Location, and it could be a huge breakthrough in mobile mapping technology. My Location is available at no cost to those who use Google Maps on a mobile device, but don't have GPS capabilities built-in. Technicalities aside, it uses cell towers to approximate the location of the user so that it is easier to find out where you are headed.

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November 19th, 2007
Correct Your House or Business on Google Maps

There has seemed to be a lot of love and care for Google Maps lately. They just announced a new feature that lets anyone customize the location of a business, or even an address such as your own house.

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October 24th, 2007
MyFive: Online Mapping Service Alternatives

Online mapping services have come a long way over the last several years, and now there are numerous good options available. MapQuest is probably one of the most well-known services out there, thanks largely in part to the fact that they entered the online mapping world before some of the other major services that we know and use today.

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October 3rd, 2007
CyberNotes: Opera Tips & Tricks

As we've shown before, Opera is an extremely customizable browser, but it does so much that it can be difficult to remember it all. Then again you would have to know what it does in order to remember it. :)

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September 13th, 2007
Google Pays NASA 1.3 Million to Land Jet

Apparently Google and NASA are best buds these days. Despite the fact that NASA's Moffett Federal Airfield is off limits to private aircraft, they decided to allow Larry Page and Sergey Brin's Boeing 767 plane land at their field. The reason Google's co-founders want to land there is all a matter of convenience.  You see, Moffett field is located in Google Land (a.k.a.

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August 21st, 2007
Add Directions to your Site via Google Maps

Finally! Google now lets you embed Google Maps into your own site, and even customize various aspects of them! The way they implemented it isn’t extremely technical...they just use an embeddable frame for you to put on your site. So you’re essentially serving up another website inside your own site.

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May 30th, 2007
A Look at Google’s New “Mapplets”

Yesterday at Where 2.0, Google made the announcement that they were takin’ maps to the streets with their new street view functionality.  This new feature seemed to take all the spotlight and hardly any attention was given to “Mapplets” which was also announced.

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May 28th, 2007
New GPS Support with Google Maps for Mobile Devices

There are many people who like Google Maps for mobile devices but have been disappointed that there hasn’t been support for GPS. (Note: the iPhone will not have GPS support. I would have thought that they would include this).  Google recently announced that Google Maps for mobile will in fact finally have support for GPS on certain mobile devices.

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April 13th, 2007
Blurred Out Locations on Google Maps

While using Google Maps, you’ve probably come across parts of the map that are either blurred, whited out, or pixelized. It’s no mistake, those areas are actually blurred on purpose (most of the time).  They blur out spots on the maps that are considered to be sensitive like military bases, certain government buildings, nuclear power plants, etc.

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April 12th, 2007
New “3D” Buildings Feature with Google Maps

Google continues to add new features to their map service, and the latest is a “3D” buildings feature which you can find in some of the major cities around the United States and Tokyo, Japan. It’s really more like 2.5D buildings as Google Earth Blog is calling it.

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April 5th, 2007
Use Google My Maps To Create Your Own Map Mashups

There have been many startup services out there that introduced the concept of creating your own mashups using Google Maps.  One of those mashups that we’ve written about is called “Wayfaring” which was a great way to plan trips, or create a journal of a trip that you already took.

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April 4th, 2007
New Version of Live Maps Released  – Includes Firefox Support for 3D Mapping

The Windows Live Maps/Virtual Earth team has spent some serious time over the last few weeks implementing new features and changes. One of their latest changes is the addition of Birds Eye Coverage around the world using their Virtual Earth service. 

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February 28th, 2007
Get Up-to-date Traffic Conditions with Google Maps

Google has just added another tool to their Google Maps service which will help you to avoid traffic jams. Now when you go to Google Maps, you’ll notice in the upper left hand corner of the page a “traffic” button.  By clicking that, you’ll see up-to-date traffic conditions. Right now this service is offered for 30 different major U.S. cities.

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