Map Quests Take It to the Streets
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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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Street hawkers are history. Savvy resellers use the web to turn tickets into cash. By Steve Knopper from Wired magazine.
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Users can customize maps by adding information such as the location of cheap gas stations or property for sale.
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I look at &quot;Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas,&quot; a new urban crime role-playing game for the PlayStation 2, about the same way I might view gorgeous graffiti painted on my front door.
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When there's panic in the streets, there's money to be made.
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Blog: Google street-level view on maps can help San Franciscans avoid parking tickets by remotely monitoring street signs
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TomTomâs new Map Share software combines cartography with community to allow users to update maps on the go â and later share the results with others.
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In the old days, heroes were  commemorated with stone statues in public squares. In today's  video game obsessed society, players can get a Mii.
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When businesses along Route 28 took the unusual step of taxing themselves to build a wider, better highway, they expected easier access would mean more customers. Instead, they say, the changes have left them off the side of the road, out of sight and hard to find.
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Campaigners call for "noise maps" to deal with noise pollution from roads, railways and flight paths.
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Thanks to such free mapping sites as MapQuest and Yahoo Maps, it's been a while since road warriors have had to sketch out a route with a yellow highlighter, guessing which shortcuts to take or avoid. Instead, they can just type in start and destination addresses and print out crisply labeled, turn-by-turn directions, with the only cost being some printer ink.
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New service sends color maps and directions to cell phone users.
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By Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 1--As a result, the public spaces of this normally packed metropolis should be relatively bereft of people, giving opportunistic urbanites a chance to find a rare, unjostled spot in museum galleries, plazas and other spaces open to the public.
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New ground-based city views wow the crowd Google yesterday announced the immediate availability of "Street View" - ground-level, photographic panoramas of Denver, Las Vegas Miami, and New York which allow surfers to "navigate around a city, 'virtually' walking the streets, checking out restaurants and landmarks and even zoom in on bus stops or street signs to make travel plans":â¦
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In New York City, street vendors sell goat-meat tacos, sour-plum slushes, mini egg rolls, chocolate egg creams and crepes -- and that just covers the food. In the District, the choice often comes down to hot dogs and handbags.
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Have you ever wondered how panoramic street-level map imagery is collected? They roll a Toyota van tricked out with tens of thousands of dollars worth of cameras, laser range detectors and global positioning hardware through the streets. Check it out.
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Google's Maps application is making headway against the number-one ranked map Web site.