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

I’m writing this article rather excited because of what I have just seen. Panoramic photos recently started to be very popular when the first algorithms and applications for creating such images appeared and digital cameras were given support for this specific kind of shooting. Publishing such shots on Flickr or any other similar site sure is fine but I’ve just hit a service that serves panoramic photos in a breath-taking way.

Categories: Cool, Entertainment

Now ain’t that interesting ? You can use Google Maps to get directions from one location to another. It is most of the time pretty accurate displaying information about highways, signs, exits and so on to give you a good impression of the route that lies ahead. You can try it now and head over to the Google Maps website and use the Get Directions tab to enter a starting point and destination to see how the system works.

Categories: Entertainment, Funny

I thought I pass this great find on to my readers here at ghacks. Google Maps Flight Simulator is a nice little application that uses various google map locations like London, Paris and Tokyo and add a plane that you can steer on the map. If you ever wanted to fly over a town this [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment

Everyone knows the map service of google and the google maps nighttime shows the earth at night (and dusk). Looks great if you ask me. Lets you zoom in and out like in every other google map.

Categories: Cool

We have seen all kind of google maps so far, some interesting, some not but this one could be interesting to some of you. If you are the type that likes to watch the Oscar and Emmy Awards for instance.
I found a celebrity map that shows where celebrities live on a google map. The site provides a large list of them, starting with Paula Abdul over Pamela Anderson to Elijah Wood and Billy Zane.

Categories: Search Engines