Google Maps is an interesting service for quite a few purposes. It can be used to get directions or take a closer look at a specific location on the planet. Many mashups extends its functionality making it without doubt one of the most popular map applications on the Internet. Google Maps does require an Internet [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

The Google City Tours online application provides an interesting alternative to traditional ways of exploring a city with the help of travel guides or guided tours. It is basically a Google Maps application that provides three day tours for many of the world’s most popular cities. All the user needs to do is to enter [...]

Categories: Google

Google Maps is one of the most popular map services on the Internet. It can be used for several purposes including looking at maps at different zoom levels in the world or to get directions by entering two locations. One problem that many users experience when using Google Maps is the inability to create maps [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Heatmaps are basically graphical data representations on two dimensional maps. They can for example be used to represent how users access applications or websites which makes them an extremely popular instrument for usability studies. Many webmasters use heatmaps to design their websites in an optimal fashion which usually means placing the ads in a position [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A few months ago, Mozilla generated lots of buzz through its Geode extension, which locates users through the WiFi access point they were using. Other popular tools have similar features, such as ‘Locate me’ on iPod Touches. So, a very interesting question is how does such technology work? They consult a service called Skyhook Wireless. [...]

Categories: Software, The Web, Tools

Hundreds of websites offer mapping services, which highlight roads, railways, streets and scores of other things. Most of these sites charge for commercial use of their data and almost certainly won’t allow users to change the maps in a wiki-like fashion. OpenStreetMap is a project to provide maps, like Google Maps does. Unlike sites like [...]

Categories: Misc, Online Services, Open Source

Generally, I geotag my photos using Flickr’s Organizr. Unfortunately, I often find Yahoo! Maps to be much worse than Google Maps and whilst recently tagging some photos of Northern France and Flanders, I simply found it intolerable (being unfamiliar with placenames etc). I began to reminisce about the days when geotagging was somewhat more complex [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools

I’ve been thinking a bit about the history of the internet, and one important point I deduced was how important Google was to this all. Many-many people love Google, which usually means a lot hate it or dislike it too, but everyone should be thankful for what they have done. You’re probably thinking that I’m [...]

Categories: The Web

Solar Roof is a Google Maps mashup that can calculate the solar potential of a roof. If you ever wanted to find out if it would make sense to put solar collectors on your roof you can do so now by using the free service. This can be quite an efficient first analysis of the [...]

Categories: Online Services