News tagged with google maps
Google Earth ocean terrain receives major update
Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA researchers and many other ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 02, 2012 |
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France convicts Google Maps for unfair competition
A French commercial court has found Google guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application and ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company.
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Google defends privacy plan to US lawmakers
Google, facing pressure from US lawmakers over a new privacy policy, said Tuesday it remains committed to protecting consumer data as it creates a "seamless and easy" Web experience.
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Google's maps go indoors with new mobile feature
Google's next frontier in digital mapping will span the world's shopping malls and airports.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Helping computers make faster decisions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Industrial and systems engineering professor Jeff Linderoth is working on a way to help computers make yes/no decisions faster by enhancing the standard algorithm computers use to solve a class of problems ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Scientists study the 'galaxy zoo' using Google Maps and thousands of volunteers
The reddest galaxies with the largest central bulb show the largest bars -gigantic central columns of stars and dark matter-, according to a scientific study that used Google Maps to observe the sky. A group ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Google Maps taking viewers inside shops
Google's free online map service is letting shops, gyms, restaurants and other small businesses provide viewers glimpses of what lies behind facades seen on Street View.
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Nokia to unveil Windows phone next week
Microsoft said Thursday that Nokia is going to launch phones using Windows' new mobile operating system next week, giving a major boost to the US firm's come-from-behind phone software business.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Google to offer tracking opt-out to Wi-Fi owners (Update)
(AP) -- Google Inc. is going to let people with home wireless networks decide whether they want to be lumped into a system that helps pinpoint the locations of people on cell phones.
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Google paid $125 million for Zagat: WSJ
Internet search and advertising giant Google paid around $125 million for restaurant review guide Zagat, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Google, Fox News to host Republican debate
Internet giant Google is teaming up with Rupert Murdoch's Fox News to host a debate among the Republican candidates for US president and giving the public the opportunity to ask questions.
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Google plots Hurricane Irene with online map
Internet giant Google has rolled out an online map tracking the path of Hurricane Irene and providing other useful information about the storm headed for the US east coast.
Aug 26, 2011 |
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Israel gives green light to Google Street View
Israel's ministry of justice said on Monday that it has given the go-ahead for Google Street View to start photographing streets in Israel to put on its 3D-mapping website.
Aug 22, 2011 |
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German privacy watchdog dislikes Facebook's 'Like'
(AP) -- A German data protection authority is "unliking" Facebook's "Like" button.
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Google Maps taking armchair explorers to the Amazon
Two women washed clothes in the dark water of the Rio Negro as a boat glided past with a camera-laden Google tricycle strapped to the roof, destined to give the world a window into the Amazon rain forest.
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Google Maps
Google Maps (for a time named Google Local) is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. According to one of its creators (Lars Rasmussen), Google Maps is "a way of organising the world's information geographically".
Google Maps uses the Mercator projection, so it cannot show areas around the poles. A related product is Google Earth, a stand-alone program for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SymbianOS, and iPhone OS which offers more globe-viewing features, including showing polar areas.
For more information about Google Maps, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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