Google’s Street View Trekker has already captured some dramatic scenery in its young life, but we haven’t seen it venture far beyond US borders. The company is making up for that in style through its recently completed image-gathering expedition t…
Google’s been granted a patent that puts quite a few of its favorite ideas together, namely Maps Navigation, Street View and augmented reality. The application describes a system combining garden variety GPS guidance with panoramic images, 3D mode…
If you’ve been taking far too many virtual road trips after employing the (unofficial) Street View Hyperlapse chauffeur, you may be running out of places to go next. Well, today Google has added Hungary and Lesotho (a country within South Africa) …
Google’s been taking heat for a number of years since its Street View cars were found to be pulling WiFi data, and the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has today hit the search giant with a 145,000 euro fine (alm…
Taking Google’s maps and Street View imagery, design firm Teehan+Lax Labs has moulded them into an unofficial time-lapse animation site. While there’s some predetermined (and beautiful) routes offered up on the maker’s site, you can also plug in your…
Google has added over 9,500 “panoramic images” of the Grand Canyon to its Maps service. Accessible via the StreetView option, the images give breathtaking views of the Bright Angel Trail, Colorado river, and other landmarks. T…
More Info Nokia stacks up its maps next to Apple’s and Google’s, politely suggests it comes out on top (update: more detail) Apple says it’s ‘just getting started’ on Maps for iOS 6, are you willing to wait? (poll) MapQuest picks TomTo…
They say you should never learn how the sausage gets made, but we’re willing to make an exception for Google Maps. Talking to The Atlantic, Google has revealed just how much the human element figures into all that collected satellite imagery and road…
Looking for somewhere remote, quiet and cold for retirement? You can’t get much further out than Cambridge Bay — hidden away in Canada’s arctic Nunavut territory, this sleep town is only reachable by plane, boat or Google Maps. Navigating its street…
For a country that dominates the Latin American landscape, Brazil hasn’t had much of a presence in Google Street View outside of major cities like Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo. A fresh update to Street View coverage has just gone live that fleshes out…
