Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom have jointly released an open map dataset aimed at providing app developers with free geographical data — and weakening the duopoly of Google and Apple Maps. Founded by the four companies in December last year, the Overture Maps Foundation is...
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July 27, 2023 albert
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In February, Google launched Immersive View for Google Maps, a new, AI-powered experience that lets you virtually stroll through a place in 3D, seeing as it changes over different times and weather conditions — and even allowing you to peek inside certain buildings. Initially, Immersive...
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June 15, 2023 albert
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With the COVID-19 pandemic keeping many of us away from buses and trains (and Uber and Lyft rides), we’ve reverted to driving ourselves. This means more time with Google Maps — whether that’s on our phones resting on a car mount, or on the car...
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February 14, 2021 albert
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Whether you’re planning a day out on the town, or want to orchestrate the perfect road trip across the country, Google Maps allows you to add up to nine stops, excluding your starting point, when you make directions from both the website and the Maps...
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August 2, 2018 albert
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Editor’s note: Today’s post is from Christophe Hardy, Toyota Motor Europe’s Manager of Social Business. He’ll explain how Toyota used Google Maps APIs to build an Android app to keep teen drivers safe. It’s a milestone that teenagers celebrate and parents fear: getting that first...
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December 3, 2017 albert
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Uber has been weathering quite a storm lately, but the ride hailing company wants to remind you: It also builds technology, and not just sexism scandals. On Wednesday, Travis Kalanick’s beleaguered startup officially launched a new navigation system for its drivers. Features include lane guidance,...
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March 15, 2017 albert
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In 2015, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and mobile analytics solutions provider iVEDiX came together to create the HIV Situation Room, a mobile app designed to help fight the HIV epidemic in Kenya. The app uses Google Maps APIs to create a...
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February 24, 2017 albert
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In Bing Maps, a street view at the corner of Pennington Avenue and Hazel Street in Baltimore’s Curtis Bay neighborhood shows a single police car, two officers, and what appears to be a man in the middle of the street bleeding from the skull. Read...
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October 24, 2016 albert
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When a company’s founding partners share the names are Strumpshaw, Tincleton and Giggleswick you know you’re in for a ridiculous ride. ST&G are purveyors of maps that are a little bit naughty. Making maps highlighting lewd-sounding (yet totally real) place names in Britain, the U.S....
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August 24, 2016 albert
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Posted by Diana Brown, Product Manager at Infoxchange Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of “Mapping a Better World” posts, highlighting organizations using location data to affect positive local and global change. Today’s guest post comes from Diana Brown, Product Manager at...
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May 11, 2016 albert
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