Google Adds Mapping Technology
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Google today added to its search technology holdings with the acquisition of digital mapping company Keyhole Corp, a move that has implications for its local search strategy and marks the company&#39;s expansion into subscription-based services.
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Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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Google announced its purchase yesterday of Keyhole, a mapping company that uses satellite photographs to produce three-dimensional maps, in a move that could bolster Google&#39;s local search capabilities.
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Google Inc. now provides a searchable index to the millions of Google Earth layers on the Web.
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Google Inc.  will  introduce on Wednesday a new feature that lets users create  personalized maps which plot the locations of everything from  cheap gas locally to the latest earthquakes worldwide.
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Led by John Hanke, Google Earth and Google Maps are delivering cartography tools to the masses.
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(InfoWorld) - Google has improved Google Maps with immersive views of streets from a handful of U.S. cities as well as with miniapplications that can be embedded on a map. The Street View feature places users at the road level, giving them the perspective of drivers and pedestrians and thus offering a deeper and more detailed experience of the location than aerial images provide. So far, Microsoft has been at the forefront of immersive online maps imagery, introducing so-called bird's-eye views in late 2005 that allowed users to tilt aerial images and view them from an angle. In November of last year, Microsoft unveiled 3D views of 15 U.S. cities, a feature that lets users zoom in and out of these urban areas and get a three-dimensional view of buildings, terrain, and the like. On Tuesday,Â Microsoft increased the number of cities availableÂ in 3D in its Live Search mapping site. Google debuted Street View on Tuesday with major roads in San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver and promises to add more cities "in the near future." Meanwhile, Google also announced it is now possible to build lightweight applications so that users can mash them up with Google Maps. Called Mapplets, these gadget applications will be available in the Maps site for users to choose from and apply to their maps. Currently in preview mode, Mapplets can be found in a special version of Google Maps for users who want to try them out. Mapplets take the concept of Google Maps mashups one step further, Google said. Previously, developers could build an application on top of Maps and make it available on a specific Web site. Now, those mashups can be packaged as a Mapplet so that several can be combined on a single Maps Web site. Developers can find more information about creating these mapplets in this documentation page. To allow for the creation of Mapplets, Google merged two of its existing application programming interfaces: the Gadgets API and the Maps API.
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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 Google Maps 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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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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Google Inc. has bought digital map maker Keyhole Corp., extending the search engine leader&#39;s bid to fend off rivals with a toolbox that can catalog almost anything in the world.
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Blog: Google acquires Panoramio, a Spanish photo sharing site that maps photos on Google Earth
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Google Inc. on Wednesday branched out into 3-D digital mapping with the acquisition of Keyhole Corp. In its second acquisition this year, Google has bought a startup company that connects consumers, businesses
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Google Inc. is using its popular Internet search technology to find information and images broadcast on television, continuing a recent effort to extend its reach beyond the Web.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Online search engine leader Google has bought digital map maker Keyhole Corporation. The acquisition is a continuation of Google&#39;s efforts to broaden its horizons in the face of tougher competition.
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Google turned its eyes to the stars on Wednesday, introducing Sky, its complement to the Google Earth ground mapping product.
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Google is working with mobile content providers on a search tool for cell phones.
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Google's new mapping tool catches urban ephemera in the act, from tabbies in windows to red-light runners. Submit and vote on your favorite scenes captured by Google -- be they citizens flouting laws or hot dog vendors doing their thing.