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Google Maps Adds New Crowdsourced Maps of Afghanistan, Iraq & Elsewhere

By Jon Mitchell / October 6, 2011 11:15 AM / View Comments

Google has just announced the latest class of countries to graduate from Google Map Maker and become full-fledged citizens of Google Maps. Map Maker allows "citizen cartographers" to add details

A Better Street View Comes to Canada

By Sarah Perez / March 18, 2009 5:09 AM / View Comments

Parts of Canada finally have their own Street View maps, but surprisingly, they didn't come from Google. Instead, the maps were created in a joint effort between British Columbia-based Canpages.ca

Google Launches Hotpot, A Recommendation Engine for Places

By Audrey Watters / November 15, 2010 8:36 PM / View Comments

Although there's much buzz about location-based technologies being able to help you check in "where you are," the far bigger problem when it comes to place is simply "where to

At Last, Google Recognizes South Sudan's Independence

By Jon Mitchell / September 16, 2011 10:30 AM / View Comments

Two months later, Google has joined the international community in recognizing South Sudan's independence and adding it to Google Maps. After uprisings at the beginning of the year, South Sudan

Google Maps and Street View Undergo Awesome Redesign

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 25, 2008 2:23 PM

Google Maps underwent a major redesign today and the new street view is pretty fantastic. Now users can drag a little human figure named "Pegman" over any streets that light

Apple and Google Alliance Just Got Stronger

By Steve O'Hear, last100 editor / August 8, 2007 2:56 PM

Yesterday’s Apple press event saw the unveiling of new iMacs and major updates to the company’s iLife and iWorks software suites. But it also provided further insight into the cosy

Developers: Your Google Maps API Free Riding Days Are Over

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 26, 2011 9:22 PM / View Comments

Months after warning developers it would happen, the Google Developer team announced tonight that the era of unlimited Google Maps usage for free is officially over. Developers whose apps load

Why Don't The Web's Mapping Services Recognize South Sudan's Independence? [Updated]

By Jon Mitchell / August 23, 2011 12:30 PM / View Comments

An online petition on Change.org is gathering signatures to pressure Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and National Geographic to update their world maps to include the newly independent country of South Sudan.

New API of the Week: MapQuest Bike Route API

By Klint Finley / November 15, 2010 6:00 PM / View Comments

MapQuest, owned by AOL, has taken backseat to newer mapping services like Google Maps and Bing Maps of late. But the venerable driving directions site added some exciting new

The Battle for "Location," This Time with Real Armies

By Audrey Watters / November 11, 2010 5:30 PM / View Comments

Although many of us have come to rely on Google Maps for navigation, the service is by no means the official arbiter of territory or borders. Nevertheless, twice within as

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