Google Maps Gaining on Mapquest
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Google's Maps application is making headway against the number-one ranked map Web site.
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Users will see the coupons displayed with maps when they search on Google Local.
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Ask.com is introducing AskCity, a service that integrates maps with information about local businesses, restaurants, listings and reviews.
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Yahoo Maps gets a great new upgrade that helps users reroute their driving directions.
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By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--"Google wants you" to help it win the mapping war, John Hanke, the director of Google Earth and Google Maps, told a crowd of location-obsessed technologists Tuesday at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose.
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A Google Maps mashup that pinpoints the physical location of affected IP addresses is just one component of an elaborate phishing scam designed to separate bank customers from their money. The scam targets account holders at firms including Bank of America, Germany's Deutsche Bank, and Australia's Westpac and Commonwealth Bank.
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Oracle is integrating one of its applications with Google's mapping service to help service providers locate customers more quickly.
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Fighting for virtual territory In sat nav, as in other forms of consumer technology, content is king. Or at least navigation hardware providers Garmin and TomTom believe so - the bell rings today for round two of their fight to acquire map-data firm Tele Atlas.â¦
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Bill Slawski has an extensive post about a new Google patent application pertaining to local, which factors in other information in determining location ranking vs. the &#8220;centroid&#8221; point of a geographic area. (See my Urban Mapping post re the &#8220;centroid problem.&#8221;) Bill unpacks the Google patent application: The patent describes how it might associate a query with [...]
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(InfoWorld) - GoogleÂ introduced a feature to its mapping service on Wednesday that allows people to create their own customized maps, by adding information such as the location of cheap gas stations or property for sale. The information comes from what Google calls maplets, which are small applications created by Google or a third-party developer that combine Google Maps with some other service, such as a real estate listing or traffic report. Users who set up a Google My Maps account can then create their own customized maps, adding as many maplets as they want. They can also draw directions on their maps, and attach photographs or videos of specific locations using services such as Google's YouTube and PicasaWeb. The resulting maps can be kept private or made public and indexed in Google's search engine, according to Google's My Maps page. People can also upload maps to Google Earth in the form of a KML (Keyhole Markup Language) file, a technology for describing geographic coordinates. A Google official said last month that the company may eventually allow paid advertisements on its mapping service, where businesses would be able to create maps with some sponsored links. The ads would take the form of the pins seen on the maps today, with pop-up photos and text. It would be a way for both Google and businesses to earn more advertising revenue, which underpins much of Google's strength. Google has said it will give users some say in how many ads appear on its maps, so as to not be too intrusive. Â
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Yahoo&#39;s new Mobile Internet service lets users obtain localized search results on specific businesses, access maps, and make calls from the results page.
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Internet search company Google Inc. has acquired Keyhole Corp., a supplier of online satellite maps that allow users to zoom down to street level to specific locations, Google said Wednesday.
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Where am I? I'll ask my phone... The most useful place for a map is in the pocket, but anyone who has tried to navigate using a web-based mapping application on a mobile phone will know that it is a lot easier to ask for directions, or just wander around at random.â¦
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In a deal that could give a boost to local search marketing, search engine giant Google said yesterday it acquired Keyhole Corp., which sells online satellite maps.
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Thanks to the success of its MyMaps tool, Google is currently hosting more than 9 million custom maps generated by its users. That's a lot of geodata, so Google has introduced a new slideshow tool to help you browse the publicly available user-created maps in its MyMaps database.
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What's the best way to provide digital driving directions to the likes of Google and Garmin? May the best map win. By Wilson Rothman from Wired magazine.
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New from PHPRiot today, there's this new tutorial showing you how to combine a PHP interface with the Google Maps API to do some geocoding of your own.   Geocoding is the process of finding the longitude and latitude of a given address or location. The Google Maps service gives developers and web site owners free access to their geocoder, both using the Google Maps JavaScript API, as well as using the web service. In this article I will show you how to access the geocoder web service using PHP so that it can be used in your own applications.   The tutorial walks you through every step of the way - from getting your Google API ID to making a simple request all the way out to using placemarks to store locations to fetch later on.   This is a great, very detailed summary that anyone wanting to work with the Google API in PHP should definitely check out.