Tragedy has struck though. In upstate New York, a street view car hit a baby deer on Five Points Road – and then recorded the whole thing on Google Maps. Nobody noticed until, well, someone noticed, prompting a Daily What blog post, floods of traffic, and then a sequence of five street-level pictures being removed [...]
Recently I’ve been thinking about the the world of mobile telephony and what it means for maps. So we’ve had the iPhone since June 2007 and it certainly has exploded consumer expectations for interactive Location Based Services. For better or worse, the iPhone is now the yardstick against which all new mobile devices and applications [...]
An interesting blog post here on experiences searching for address and postcode in London on Google Maps and Multimap by Ham Life.
I like the statement:
So I put my instinctive hatred of Microsoft aside and tried multimap instead.
Putty hatred aside paid off in this case!
A new release of the multimap.com website has just been made. As well as bringing some behind the scenes performance improvements, there are some cool new features.
When you search for a place or address, a box is now place on the location giving useful local context information (for example a link to the nearest railway [...]
Here it is in all its photosynth map mashup glory:
The story is here.
As I now spend so much time in Innsbruck, I thought I better give skiing a go. Growing up in Africa meant I had never tried it before. To be honest I was rather hoping I would hate it and would then save a lot of money as a result. Unfortunately I am rather enjoying [...]
CNN are going to to create a Photosynth of Obama’s inauguration:
CNN Worldwide plans to create the most unique view of the exact moment U.S. President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at noon (ET). Using Microsoft Photosynth technology, CNN and Microsoft Corp. will produce the first “synth” of [...]
The MSN Local Property pages have just launched a new version of the property searcher using the Multimap API. This allows users to search for property geographically and display the results on a map.
It makes nice use of the Multimap marker de-cluttering and info boxes. Using very simple and small marker icons (like [...]
