Tag: MAP

Last time we took a look at the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, we showed how to do some fun, if easy, stuff with it--like setting up custom RSS news sources, placing VoIP calls, and even playing a little Quake 2. Now, we've assembled a new video demonstrating one of the most quirky hacks you can pull off with Nokia's little handheld computer: assembling a functional GPS tracking system using a ...

Time to get virtually closer to a few more pieces to the Earth's landscape. Google Earth, which will be followed by Google Maps, has updated imagery in the US, Latin America, Africa, India, China, Australia and New Zealand. Google isn't saying exactly where to find the updates, which hit 130 countries. So if you think it is going to be easy to find the new imagery, think again. You are going to ...

As the weather slowly shifts from summer to fall, many of us are left thinking about traveling south for some sun. With plenty of trip planning websites out there, TripCart focuses on combining all attractions into a single convenient location. When the time to getaway rolls around, check in with TripCart. This travel website focuses on attractions that would be interesting to hit up when ...

While we don't condone speeding here at DLS, this is a Google Map mashup that pinpoints locations that people might not want to go above the speed limits in the Toronto, Ontario area. This male targeted mashup pinpoints the locations more commonly home to hidden police cruisers with radar on their minds. By clicking on cars, users are presented with a description of where they are normally ...

Flipping through the categories in Amazon can get a little boring after a while, especially if you're just checking in to see if something catches your attention. So why not browse it in a creative way? Josh Catone has outlined five different ways that users can check out goods on Amazon. From Flash visualization tools to relationship explorers, this small list covers them. They might not be for ...

Are you dying to know some answers to a brewing question you have? Get the answers out with PollMappr. There are plenty of online poll generation tools that demand a fee for usage, and a few free ones that tend to stray on the dull side. PollMappr lets users put polls on their blogs, websites or social network. The fun doesn't stop there however, PollMappr maps where on earth the answers are ...

You might come across many interesting things during your day to day travels, and may have even thought about how to go about sharing them with others. Google now lets users pinpoint where pictures are taken with Picasa Web, but Maptales lets you tell a story. Maptales is powered by Google Maps, and allows users to tell a story by pinpointing locations, and showing a route on a map. Users can ...

Cell phone signals are pretty easy to catch now. Major providers have boosted their signals, and troubleshooted hard to reach areas, but every once and a while we hit a dead spot and the dreaded "hello?, hello? Are you there? hello?" kicks into play. SignalMap hopes to alleviate any pain in this area. They have used the Google Maps API and mapped up a user generated list of cell phone signals by ...

No more forgetting where you took that picture on your vacation, Google has now made it possible for users to pinpoint the exact places they took their photos by mapping photos. A new feature called "Map My Photos" was released on Tuesday in Picasa Web Albums, lets users show exactly where on a map pictures were taken. When creating an album, fill out the Place Taken field, or drag and drop ...

Google has added public transit info for some cities, although it looks like we'll have to wait a little while before Google Transit expands beyond a limited number of cities. And HopStop gives you transit and walking directions in a limited number of US cities. But so far most services that provide directions online assume you're driving a car. Mapquest, Google Maps, and pretty much everybody ...

Google is all about buying companies. Not just any company, companies that help with their mission to organize all of the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Well, they have done it again with a site we profiled late last year, Panoramio. Panoramio was built as a Google Maps mashup that lets users map photos based on geographic locations. The company is based in ...

Getting hitched soon? Or know a friend that is? This is the perfect tool to use to ensure everyone gets to your wedding events on time. Wedding Mapper is an online tool that allows people to map out their wedding and all events associated with it so that friends, family and photographers can locate places easily on an interactive map. The mapping tool is free to use, and doesn't take long at all ...

The New York State Department of Transformation has their Google on. They've created an intuitive Google Maps mashup that makes traveling through the state a little easier. A Real-time transportation status map plots live camera feeds, roadwork, critical incidents, road closures, weather or alerts, and traffic speeds. A legend on the left side of the map allows users to plot one topic at a time ...

What happens when you mix up the ever popular Skype, with Google Earth? Well, you get Unype, an interesting virtual world mashup application. With Unype, users can utilize Skype's chatting and VoiP with Google Earth to chat and share Google Earth sessions with other users that have the same applications installed at their end. To get up and running, users have to install a Windows PC application ...

Google launched a little feature called MyMaps secretly last night that is going to change the world of mashups forever. The new Google MyMaps feature gives users the ability to create either public or private maps from the Google Maps site. Essentially, Google is giving power to users to create mashups with no knowledge of Javascript. The toolset that Google gives users is extremely simple and ...