Google maps

Apple’s Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off”

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 11 at 10:16 am PT

iOS is about to get a new Apple-built mapping solution.

A 3D view of San Francisco from C3 Technologies

Google Offers Start Appearing on Maps, Coming to More Properties Soon

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 10 at 4:35 pm PT

Google has integrated Groupon-like offers into Google Maps, and it’s not stopping there. Expect to see deals on other Google properties with a strong location, social or commerce component soon.

Google Q1 Earnings: “Velocity, Execution and Focus”

Liz Gannes in News on April 12 at 2:00 pm PT

Here’s how Google CEO Larry Page and his deputies explained their latest quarter and their effective stock split.

“Girls Around Me” App Maker: We Pulled Out of iTunes, but We Didn’t Do Anything Wrong

Peter Kafka in Social on April 1 at 5:35 am PT

I-Free’s argument: We couldn’t have built this thing without the data that Foursquare and Facebook gave us. Also, please don’t call us stalkers.

Google Maps Gets a Jump on April Fools’

Peter Kafka in News on March 31 at 12:58 pm PT

Kinda fun.

These Boots Are Made for Tracking: GPS Technology Comes to Shoes

Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 30 at 9:03 am PT

The souped-up shoes are aimed at caretakers who need to monitor people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. However, they raise some technical — and legal — questions.

Google Maps the Indoors, So Navigating Ikea Is No Longer a Nightmare

Tricia Duryee in Mobile on November 29, 2011 at 9:35 am PT

No more walking in circles to find the mall’s bathroom, or aimlessly wandering in search of a refreshing Orange Julius.

Google Lets More People Know That They Just Missed Their Bus

Ina Fried in Mobile on June 8, 2011 at 11:49 am PT

Google is adding real-time public transit information for four U.S. cities, as well as Madrid and Turin, Italy, in the latest update to Google Maps. In the States, the service is available in San Francisco, San Diego, Calif., Portland, Ore. and Boston.

Google Earth Builder Brings Cloud to Companies and Governments Who Make Big Maps

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 20, 2011 at 10:56 am PT

Google Maps is useful when you need to find the restaurant you’re headed to or to plan a trip. But the mapping business is more serious and significant than many perceive. Google plans to open up its cloud to companies and governments with huge troves of digital maps to build their own internal Google Earths.

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Country No. 184 for Google Map Maker: The United States

Liz Gannes in Social on April 19, 2011 at 12:01 am PT

Google Map Maker, which enlists users to expand and keep up to date Google Maps and Google Earth, will on Tuesday become available in the United States. (Other independent user mapping efforts include Waze and OpenStreetMap, both already available in the U.S. ) A product developed by Google in India, the company says Map Maker has already been used by thousands of cartophiles to edit maps in 183 countries and regions around the world. User edits are usually approved for inclusion in the live product within a few days. And now, that forgotten nation…the U.S..