Geek Tip: Find Your Way on Public Transit With GoogleMaps 30 min 9 sec ago by geeksugar 12 Views - 1 comment I use public transit every day and rarely drive, unless I'm going out of town. And as much as I love my city, their trip planners are not as helpful as they could be. So where do you go for some bus- and train-hopping advice? You head on over to GoogleMaps, of course! GoogleMaps has an awesome public-transportation database that tells you which bus to get. Enter your start and

The scene: You open up Google Maps to find directions before heading off to that holiday trip. Of course, who wouldn’t want to prepare by acquainting yourself to the “lay of the land”. Google Maps, you think, is a great tool (and truly, it is!) except that this time, what you wanted turned up blank. Not even a road, bridge or some useful landmark. Oh well, you say–you’ll just get a community map when you reach the local airport. Now when you get back, you think, hey wouldn’t it be helpful if y

In the blogsphere (see High Earth Orbit and BlinkGeo) there is discussion going on about the role of Google Maps in GIS and indeed if Google Maps can be seen as GIS? Google Maps (in our view) changed everything in the online geographic world. Where once data was restricted to slow and cumbersome servers from large GIS companies, Google came along and made it easy. Google provided a base layer in essence on which to overlay information, a base layer that in the UK at least was hugely important

Interesting new idea to improve communication on the B.B.C. website, a broadband speed test which then allows contributors to mark their speed on a Google Map, unhappy to say that the speed I pay for it not the one I get. Share This

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USHUAIA, Argentina (AP) — Online photo albums I had prepared for family and friends weren’t capturing the essence of my travels to the southern reaches of the world. Then a light bulb clicked as I was exploring Google Earth: Why not use that? Google Earth is a mapping product much more powerful than the typical Web-based map service. Applying mathematical algorithms to actual satellite and aerial images, with help from topographical data collected from the space shuttle, the free software le

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