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When I went to L.A. in July, I used Uber to travel back to the Airport. Of course, that was during rush hour, which is not a smart move. But the driver - an L.A. native - knew the shortcuts to get me from Venice Beach to LAX in a faster time. So how would a driverless car do it?
Google Maps and its Street View program have traveled across much of the world, beginning with streets and then venturing out to trails, museums and even under the waves at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Now the search giant wishes to enlist the aid of users to go further that ever. The company is enlisting volunteers to strap on its
It may be fairly short notice, but today Google issued invitations to a Google Maps event to be held on June 6th, less than 5 days away now. The announcement doesn't give any indication what the event will be about, but the title may not be quite so cryptic to understand. "The Next Dimension of Google Maps". Google Maps already has a
The map of the London Underground is world famous for its linear representation of train stations and lines. It was created by Harry Beck in the 1930s and subsequently became the standard by which other metro and subway maps were designed. The map uses a simple set of rules to great advantage, such as coloured lines, stations equally spaced, lines can
Bing has release an app that documents the massive damage from the May 22nd Joplin, Missouri tornado. The new app is a part of Bing Maps, which has become a really nice competitor for Google Maps. According the Bing team the photos come from "Surdex, one of our Global Ortho flying partners, captured these images 36 hours after the event
MarineTraffic.com is a live map showing the location of shipping of 299 GT (gross tonnage) or over. Sounds boring but in fact it's a totally awesome mashup of data. You can zoom into your local coast and see what's pottering about or you can follow a ship in the news and see what's happening to it. Here's what's going on in
I love maps. You look at an Ordnance Survey Landranger map and you see a thousand years of history, of exploration, of society, of geography all in single sheet of paper that you can fold up and put in your pocket. GPS gives you directions but a map gives you a world. Consequently, I was fascinated and delighted to see