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CNET.co.uk has 112 stories on maps
Nokia mobiles navigate Lonely Planet
News On Tuesday Nokia announced a deal with the travel book publisher Lonely Planet to sell maps and city guides to Nokia Maps 2.0 users. Each download, which costs €7.99 (£6.30), provides maps with directions and some background on important sites.
Tags: planet, guides, maps, city
21 August 2008, 8:37
London police in Google Maps crime mash-up
News The beta map mashes up Google Maps with crime statistics for each borough, using coloured overlays to indicate varying levels of criminal activity -- from patches of dark blue for low crime to red for high.
Tags: enable, maps, london, police
19 August 2008, 8:36
Google's Street View faces privacy concerns
News Thursday, shows 360-degree views of streets as a part of the Google Maps application. The Information Commissioner's Office has said it has concerns about Google's Street View and thinks the company could be breaching data-protection law.
Tags: face, privacy, international, street
9 July 2008, 9:03
News.blog: Google Maps tests walking directions
News Google Maps is starting to roll out a beta of walking directions in addition to driving directions, the Google Operating System fan blog noticed on Monday. It's also unclear whether this will get expanded to the mobile version of Google Maps, where...
Tags: maps, google, directions, walking
9 July 2008, 8:57
News.blog: 3G iPhone to get GPS?
News Om Malik notes that Google Maps is an extremely popular iPhone application already, and the addition of GPS would make that service even more compelling. It's pretty much a given that the next-generation iPhone will be faster, but it might be able...
Tags: wi fi, notes, gps, iphone
2 June 2008, 9:06
Photos: Google's Android software on display
News Maps' Street View works on Android. Google Maps, including this view with a satellite photo, are available on Android phones. The project, under development by Google and a number of partners in the Open Handset Alliance, is due to ship as open...
Tags: man, contact, engineering, maps
29 May 2008, 9:11
News.blog: Google Maps adds user-created photos and more
News Google Maps launched a new feature on Wednesday that shows you photos, videos and maps that people have created about different locations around the world. Clicking on that brings up thumbnails of photos and videos with links to more of each, as...
15 May 2008, 9:15
News.blog: Google Street View to hit Europe in 3D?
News Google Earth and Maps could cover a lot more territory with a lot more detail soon, if some photos from Italy are anything to judge by. Google wouldn't comment either on any European expansion or on 3D scanning, but both ideas are consistent with...
Tags: google, earth, maps, scanning
22 April 2008, 8:45
News.blog: Google Earth adds Street View
News The new Google Earth incorporates the Street View feature of Google Maps, including a full-screen option It adds the Street View feature from Google Maps for a ground-level view of some areas, and a new navigation method makes the software more...
Tags: google, virtual, earth, maps
16 April 2008, 8:23
News.blog: Nvidia takes fight to Intel
News Do you turn the 3D cities on in Google Maps? Nvidia's 'Optimized PC' campaign, announced on Thursday, is the market-oriented manifestation of its larger ambitions. The idea is that Nvidia wants to show you how to build or buy a PC that's 'balanced...
Tags: dedicated, processor, processing, links
11 April 2008, 10:06
News.blog: Google sued for invading privacy with Street View
News From the I-can't-believe-it-took-this-long file, a couple in Pittsburgh has sued Google, claiming that the Street View on Google Maps is a reckless invasion of their privacy. In the lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Aaron and Christine Boring say they...
Tags: privacy, google, address, street
7 April 2008, 9:09
News.blog: Google, Garmin in GPS tie-up
News Starting today, people using Google Maps to plan trips will be able to send location data to their Garmin GPS systems, the companies announced on Monday. The link between online mapping services and global positioning devices is growing stronger.
Tags: send, gps, systems, services
1 April 2008, 9:15
News.blog: Nokia navigates new Maps
News Nokia pushed its mobile navigation service to the next level on Monday with the announcement of the latest version of its Nokia Maps service at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The initial version of Nokia Maps, which was announced at...
Tags: navigation, nokia, maps, beta
12 February 2008, 8:45
Photos: Zooming in over London
News According to 192.com, the image quality of Super Zoom is three times better than Google Maps or Microsoft Live Maps. This is an aerial view of St Stephen's Tower -- Big Ben's home at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster -- on 192.com's new Super...
Tags: maps, station, zoom, london
31 January 2008, 9:13
Photos: Satellite tech maps through clouds
News A team from the University of Manchester will begin collecting data to build a model to create maps forecasting how the mudflats change each month. These maps will be assembled from data beamed by the European Space
Tags: cover, maps, navigate, satellite
12 December 2007, 8:46
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