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Google Map Maker: Crowdsourcing Cartography
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 24, 2008 7:24 AM / 5 Comments

The Google Maps team just announced the addition of a new feature to Google Maps: the ability to contribute to and edit maps through Google Map Maker. Users can now

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Google Maps Ditches Tele Atlas in Favor of Street View Cars and Crowdsourcing
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 12, 2009 8:55 AM / 5 Comments

After a flurry of activity around Google Maps over the last few weeks, it now looks like Google is also ditching Tele Atlas as its data provider for Google Maps

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Google Maps Gets Smarter: Crowdsources Live Traffic Data
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 25, 2009 10:23 AM / 7 Comments

Google today announced that Google Maps can now display live traffic data for more roads. Until now, Google only showed data from major highways. That data came directly from local

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Google Maps Coming to Media, AIR Desktops, via Flash API
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 14, 2008 11:30 AM / 4 Comments

At the Where 2.0 conference today Google announced the availability of a new Flash API for Google Maps. From Flash microsites to embedded media players to beautiful cross-platform AIR apps

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More Ads Are Coming to Google Maps
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 25, 2009 9:36 AM / 12 Comments

Soon, you may start seeing company logos dotting the landscape on Google Maps. While Google has experimented with different digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/More_Ads_Are_Coming_to_Google_Maps';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';types of ads in Google

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Google Maps at 30,000 Feet
Written by Josh Catone / June 5, 2007 1:25 PM

More Google Maps news: Today Google announced a partnership with budget airline Jet Blue that will put Google maps into the seat backs on their airplanes. Sounds sort of silly

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Windows Live Upgrades Mobile Search, Now a Viable Challenge to Google Maps
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 18, 2007 6:48 PM / 3 Comments

The Windows Live Maps team announced today an update to their mobile browser-based map and search service, m.live.com. The new version includes greater detail in listings, aggregated reviews and

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Google Maps Now Features More Detailed Maps & Easy Error Reporting
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 7, 2009 11:22 AM / 1 Comments

Google just announced a major update to Google Maps in the United States. The new version not only includes better maps based on data from government organizations like the Forest

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Google Brings Its Turn-By-Turn Navigation App to Older Android Phones
Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 23, 2009 11:32 AM / 4 Comments

Google just announced the launch of its Google Maps Navigation app for Android 1.6 and higher. Until now, Google's turn-by-turn navigation app was only available on Android 2.0 phones like

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Google Gains on MapQuest - People Still Use MapQuest?
Written by Josh Catone / January 10, 2008 9:58 AM / 20 Comments

Alright, who are you people? The people who still use MapQuest. You know who you are... my question to you is, why? According to the latest numbers from Hitwise, Google

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