For those of you who may not be aware of Google Maps, it is a free web based app that offers its users the accessibility to find street maps and route planners for travelling by foot, car and public transport. But now Google Maps has introduced a new web app “Google Places” that allows the [...]
Location-based apps are becoming increasingly more popular to the user but now with a new app “Bing Maps Taxi Fare Calculator” this may take the world of apps another leap forward. The Fare Calculator app can give a “calculated cab fare” on a route between two points before the user even has to leave the [...]
Google Earth already offers more than enough, but the search engine giant knows that users what more new features all the time, which is why 5.2 update comes with weather simulation in real-time. This means that in some parts of the U.S. and Europe you will be able to track rain and snow.
Google currently announced its new Places API as part of its Google Maps API. It will enable users to check-in with different places that they would normally use. It will give extra information to users to access a business, name, address, phone number and a description of the location. Currently Google Maps can offer street [...]
Google is not only in a constant battle with its rivals with map technology, but also themselves. This is one of the reasons why the company has made a number of improvements to its Google Earth and Maps service. They have been working hard to improve the accuracy when it comes to borders, which as [...]
The Google Maps feature “Send-To-Car” allows users to send their destinations to their vehicles ready for the journey ahead. This is already being done with a range of BMW and Audi vehicles – now it is the turn of Ford and GM.
With the soaring rise in popularity of smartphone apps have you ever wondered which are the most popular apps? Everybody these days seems to have a phone full of apps but what are the most likely ones that are probably downloaded to most people’s handsets?
FORGET the stereotypical British reserve, pioneering new research shows we’re a nation of Tweeting romantics. A unique analysis by Bupa of more than 66,000 Twitter posts reveals the prevalent mood of the nation’s Tweeters is ‘in love’, with 31,353 posts in the past four weeks alone (47 per cent).
By popular public demand Google Maps has launched biking directions. Google Maps for the U.S. has not only biking directions now, but also extensive bike trail data that will enable users to customize their trips, tell them where bike lanes are, customize maps purely for cycling and even better, work out biker-friendly routes that avoid [...]
Google it seems is offering new Google Earth Imagery on a daily basis now, and have just updated fresh content yet again. However, it looks as though this new content is not available in Maps just yet.
