Thanks to the Apple Maps app's lack of accuracy, shoddy satellite images and potentially life-threatening direction giving skills, Apple was forced to apologise for replacing Google Maps in IOS 6. Google dealt another blow to Apple today...
It includes satellite and flyover imagery among other things. In other words will it find what I'm looking for, regardless of pretty flyover images of Big Ben? But that doesn't change the fact that this is a move that could end up disappointing...
Our users have already appreciated high-quality detailed maps of Russia, Ukraine with the search function and other useful features such as routing, traffic information, satellite images and panoramic views.
They then helped spread word about the difficulties the areas faced by providing updated satellite imagery of the Tsunami's damage and custom Google Maps for the affected areas. Google has released a compilation of StreetView images that cover 44...
Google has been working with their satellite imagery provider, GeoEye, to obtain new images of the areas most affected. Some of the images have been made available on the Google LatLong blog. Yahoo also has also created their own compilation of...
The not-so-stylish, white buttons for selecting Map or Satellite view as well as the drop-list for toggling photos, buzz updates and other geo-taggable features seems to be going away. The Maps team also announced new 45° imagery within Google Maps...
Doppler Images, Worldwide Satellite and WeatherBug Stations), you can pin a point on the map to get full weather information. Read on for iPhone integration and maps announcements.iPhone 4 Integration
People will be able to trace many of these features using satellite images; as users trace, maps are immediately updated. Google has showcased before and after images from the Mapplet created to support relief efforts in Myanmar that was created...
Google, Baidu and Sohu have all been warned not to use satellite images to show sensitive regions of the People's Republic of China. Communist Chinese officials are worried satellite maps will reveal state secrets and damage the so-called integrity...
Google Maps, launched with AJAX functionality, draggable maps, and satellite imagery in late 2005, started an "arms race" in development of new features and functionality. This changed recently when the company quietly released MapQuest Beta, the...
Google Maps, launched with AJAX functionality, draggable maps, and satellite imagery in late 2005, started an "arms race" in development of new features and functionality. In today's Vertical Challenge column, "Local Search: Competing All Over the...
Drug agents plugged those coordinates into Google Earth to view satellite imagery of the location and pinpoint the exact area of the marijuana fields. It offers tabbed searching for the Web, Images, Audio, Video, News, Business Finder and People...
Note ability to select List or Turn-by-Turn options, Satellite or Aerial views and Send to Phone. Images image results per page Ask Mobile provides direct access to important mobile search categories on the home page, including Web Search...
Yahoo Travel Upgrades Maps, Adds More Features Earlier this week Yahoo upgraded its Travel Guides with more dynamic mapping (including satellite and hybrid maps), more community features and the addition of a "My Travel Module," not unlike the...
Loving 3D satellite mapping tools? Gary posted a roundup of free open source 3D satellite and aerial imagery. You can even check out images of places outside of this world, seriously! This weeks specialty search wrap up from Resource Shelf includes...
To that end, the company has an ambitious product roadmap and has been making significant investments in the area, most recently buying Vexcel Corp.a Colorado-based company that provides radar, satellite, mapping and "photogrammetric solutions.
The secondary map can provide the user with either a zoomed out or in relative to the main map, or a different type of map view (e.g.satellite images). IBM explains differences in how images can be indexed, and presents a method based upon the...
Primer: Aerial Photographs and Satellite Images: ResourceShelf Barry posted earlier about how Microsoft wants to enable dynamic updating of online maps with traffic and other local data in real time.
Zillow, the real estate portal I wrote about several weeks ago, has added birds-eye aerial photography from Microsoft's Virtual Earth to complement its maps and own satellite images of U.S.neighborhoods (here's an example).
Yahoo says Yahoo Maps now offers complete, detailed maps and high-resolution satellite imagery for all of lower 48 United States. Yahoo says this makes it the most comprehensive mapping and satellite imagery service available, at least for now.
