Google announced Thursday that they've taken their Street View cameras on a hiking trip around the Galapagos islands — above ground, and under water.
Google may or may not introduce a new design for Google Maps at a conference next week, when the company will publicly discuss about "the future of Google Maps." But people are definitely complaining about the rumored design getting passed around the web today. Here's how.
An analysis of satellite images suggests that at least one North Korean prison camp has been significantly expanded over the past decade, including since the death of former premier Kim Jong-Il.
Thanks to citizen cartographers, Google was able to fill in what was what one of the last blank spaces on earth. And now we can see things like North Korean mass transit routes, the Pyongyang's parks and of course, the country's gigantic gulags.
While residents worry about what the Street View photos will do to property values, if Google's Staten Island project looks anything like what it did for New Orleans following Katrina, it will raise the kind of awareness the "forgotten borough" will need as it continues to rebuild.
The Google Maps of the future will be a very smart computer program that knows you very well, which sounds part useful, part annoying, and part creepy.
Not only is Google's fantastic new app a step up from Apple's mess of an app, it also represents a giant leap from the already beloved Google Maps app — you know, the one that came preloaded on iPhones before Apple nixed it.
The mythical Google Maps iPhone app possibly coming to an iOS device near you by 2013 exists, a source tells The Wall Street Journal's Amir Efrati and Jessica Lessin.
Nokia announced it will bring its maps to both iOS and Android phones, releasing a mobile app called Here, which should have iPhone iOS 6 users elated because it will bring everything the loathed Apple Maps took away from Google Maps users.
Google is on track to have an Apple compatible Maps app ready by the end of the year, a source tells The Guardian's Michael Grothaus, matching reports from earlier this year.
Following the Apple's iOS 6 Maps letdown, some suggested Steve Jobs never would never have released such an inferior product. But "Apple insiders" have told Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone, Adam Satariano, and Peter Burrows that an Apple-made mapping service was all his idea.
Despite Eric Schmidt saying Google isn't doing a Google Maps app for iPhone on Tuesday, that doesn't appear to be the case. The Google Maps app is coming, according to new reports, and it could be in the app store before Christmas.
Google has spoken: The company is not working on a maps app for the iPhone.
Apple knows it has a Maps issue, but the company is saying, "the more people use it, the better it will get." Unfortunately, as mapping technology explains, that fix won't solve its location data problem very soon.
While there is a lot to complain about vis-a-vis Apple Maps, we, as Americans, should really be upset with the new iOS 6 app for what it has done to many of our nation's most notable landmarks.
This afternoon at 1 p.m. EST Apple will release its updated operating system, iOS 6, but despite all the new bells and whistles we're a little anxious about immediately upgrading.
For its rumored upcoming Kindle Fire refresh, expected next week, Amazon will add maps functionality but it won't go with Google's popular offering, sources told Reuters' Alistair Barr.
While everyone was getting all excited about Google's 3D announcement today, Google revealed an even more useful, if less sexy, feature: an offline mode.
The latest front in the great Google-Apple war is to provide 3D maps on Smartphones, which at first sounds like a chest-thumping battle of techno-corporate pride, but after a bit of investigation might actually benefit people who are stuck with plain old 2D.
Small businesses are getting sick of Google charging big sums for access to its popular Maps product. Here are three ways to get around without Google Maps.
The founders of Yelp, the same company that rejected a $500 million acquisition offer from Google two years ago, must be feeling absolutely fantastic about their first day trading on the stock market. But Google hasn't given up trying to take over the listings business.
Google Maps seems to have gotten itself involved in a naming debate that has the company siding with protesters camped out in Oakland's central plaza.
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