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Google Map of the Week: The Flattest Route

by Richard on May 15, 2013

This week’s Google map of the Week is the Flattest Route. The Google Maps team liked it because it provides a nice looking and also easy to use interface that highlights elevation changes along your route, since this month is the Bike to Work Month, the Gmaps team thought it would be a great idea [...]

Google Maps New Interface

May 12, 2013

Alex Chitu has shared interesting news with the world wide web, according to the GoogleSystem blog, Google has already redesigned Google Maps and a new interface is about to be launched soon. This new update focuses more on the map itself, the sidebar has been removed and everything will be shown at the top of [...]

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MapQuest Classic is Gone!

May 2, 2013

I’m sure most of you know that I love the MapQuest Classic site and I’m sure that a lot of you also like the site as much as I do. Well, I have really bad news for those of you who preferred the old version of this service, today when I went to classic.mapquest.com to [...]

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Google Map of The Week: Isuzu Trail View

May 2, 2013
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This week’s Google Map of the Week is Isuzu Trail View. The Google Maps team likes it because it uses custom street view panoramas to create an immersive experience that’s truly unique and amazing. The map was created to showcase the capabilities of the new Isuzu KB in the South African market, Mano Marks said [...]

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Google Launches Street View in Hungary and Lesotho

April 25, 2013
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The great thing about Google Street View is that it gives you immediate access to the places you want to see, you can use it to explore magical, historical and popular landmarks throughout the whole world. Street View was launched back in 2007, and as time has passed by it has become a more comprehensive, [...]

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Travel Bookings For MapQuest Will Be Powered By Priceline Partner Network

April 22, 2013

Recently Priceline Partner Network announced their a partnership with MapQuest, the business unit of PriceLine.com will now power MapQuest’s new feature to book travel. With this partnership users will be able to access hotel, airline and rental car services through MapQuest.com, this will include even brand new products such as MapQuest Discover. MapQuest travel services [...]

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Google Map of The Week: Zomato

April 16, 2013
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This week’s Google Map is Zomato. The GMaps team likes it because the developers have created a really cool app that uses the Google Maps SDK for iOS. The developers explained what the Zomato Restaurant Finder app does, this is what they said: “gives you restaurant recommendations around you and lets you look at menus, [...]

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Google Map Maker UK

April 12, 2013
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Yesterday the Google Maps team announced the launch of Google Map Maker in the United Kingdom. Now you can help create a better map by marking trails, adding your favorite shops, or improving the free driving directions service offered by the search giant. UK users now have the chance to use Google Map Maker to [...]

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ChatMap: Google Maps Chat Application

April 9, 2013
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ChatMap is a really cool Google Maps based chatting application that offers unique embed options that you probably haven’t seen before. What this service does is basically allow users to chat with each other directly through a Google map. To join a conversation simply click on one of the balloon markers on the map, or [...]

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OpenSignal

April 5, 2013
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This week’s Map of the Week is OpenSignal Web and Android apps. The Google Geo Developers team likes it because they find its functionality useful, what the app basically does is collect stats on cell and wifi networks around the world through it’s Android App. Mano Marks explained how it works: “Users of the Android [...]

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AOL Launches MapQuest Discover in Canada: discover.mapquest.ca

April 4, 2013
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Today AOL.ca announced the launch of MapQuest Discover for Canada, the new site is located at the following url: discover.mapquest.ca, so make sure to go check it out, specially if you like traveling and / or going out to fun and popular places near you. As I have already explained in the past, Map Quest [...]

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Google Maps Street View Finds Treasure Map

April 2, 2013
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The Google Maps team has just announced that an archeological analysis has confirmed that the Google Maps Street View team has found a treasure map which belonged to a famous pirate known as William “Captain” Kidd. Tatsuo Nomura, a Google Maps software engineer said on a blog post “The map was found on a recent [...]

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Google Maps now offers live transit information in more cities

March 27, 2013

A lot of people use public transit to get around their cities and also to explore new places while traveling. Well, I have good news for those of you who like to use public transit as a method of transportation. Today, Google announced that from now on Google Maps users will be able to view [...]

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MapQuest Free Travel Blogs

March 26, 2013

MapQuest free travel blogs allow you to easily capture all your adventures from your journeys and share them with your family and friends. You can access this new service on the web at the following url: http://TravelBlogs.MapQuest.com. It is also available for iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, you can download [...]

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Use Google Maps to View Global Sea Level Rises

March 22, 2013
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Today Keir Clarke from GoogleMapsMania posted a very interesting article that I would like to share with all our readers. There are several Google Maps apps that let users view sea level rises throughout the world and how they will affect it. One of those apps is the HeyWhatsThat Map Layers map, which allows you [...]

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