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ASCII Maps: Google Maps for the terminal
Okay, the title of this post is
a complete lie—you can't get Google Maps in a terminal, at least not yet, but ASCII Maps is a fun Google Maps hack
that kinda feels like it. ASCII Maps replaces Google Maps' map and satellite imagery with ...
Google Maps adds streets and directions for Europe
Google Maps
has received a significant update in the form of much more road and street map coverage for Europe. The coverage is far
from total, with some regions getting comprehensive street maps and others getting only major roads or less, and ...
Google Maps for Mobile gets an upgrade
Today the Official Google Blog is touting an upgrade to Google Maps for Mobile that adds a few nice features. The two biggest new features are for dealing with traffic: First, you can check on traffic conditions without leaving the map. Second, it ...
Google Maps go green
Google is showing its ecological side with Summer of Green, an attractive Google Maps mashup that, in a partnership with the Earth Day Network, "highlights some planet-friendly travel tips for top U.S. travel destinations as well as how to use ...
DaylightMap: Google Maps after dark
DaylightMap is the sort of thing you'd think some Google engineer would have done in his 20% time already. It's a Google Maps mashup that shows the Earth as it is: partly in sunlight, partly in shadow. It uses images from NASA to show Earth's ...
View KML overlays on Google Maps
Previously KML files were exclusively the domain of Google Earth, but a part of the Google Earth 4 announcement the other day that I missed was that Google Maps now supports KML files, too. KML, in case you're not up on your acronyms, is an XML ...
Draw all over Google Maps with quickmaps
quickmaps is a cool new Google Maps-based web service (or mashup, if you prefer) that lets you get really creative with your Google Maps. Quickmaps gives you a bunch of tools, including a couple dozen markers, line and doodle tools for drawing, and ...
Google Maps adds click-to-call
Yesterday Google announced the introduction of a new click-to-call feature when searching in Google Maps. This convenient addition lets users enter their phone number in the mapped location results, to have Google instantly connect them via telephone ...
Track the Tour de France live with Google Maps
What shall we obsess over while the World Cup isn't on? How about the Tour de France? Tour de France Live Tracker is a Google Maps mash-up that plots the route of the Tour and its riders in real time. It also displays riders' vitals, like heart rate ...
Zoomify: Zoomable hi-res image viewer for the web
Ever had a really, really high-resolution image you wanted to display on the web but didn't want to resize it or make the viewer load the whole however many megabytes all at once? Check out Zoomifyer. It's most easily described by saying it does ...
Google Earth for iPhone gets an update to 2.0
When Google brought its amazing global map application, Google Earth, to the iPhone, it was a match made in heaven. (Okay, it was match made on Earth, but bear with with me, here.) The pinching and rotating gestures on the iPhone made exploring the ...
Google Maps Dashboard widget
With so much going on in the Google mapping space this week (open APIs, Google Earth), this new Google Maps Widget fits right on in. You can map by address or location and navigate via mouse or keyboard, and -- very cool -- switch to satellite view ...
Gallery: SignalMap
Map Builder for easy Google and Yahoo Maps
It's been great that Google and Yahoo have opened
up their map API's to let just about anyone build maps using that pre-built tech goodness. Unfortunately, if you're not
a developer, or if you're just in a hurry, maybe you don't need access to the ...
Google Maps' self promotion pays off
Google has been promoting Google Maps on search results pages, and according to Hitwise, their promotion is paying off. As a result, Google Maps has seen a sizeable increase in their traffic in the last year. If you were to search for an address on ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
