Service fee for looking at service roads

Nov 1, 2011
Google Maps announced yesterday that it is going to start charging high-volume users. That could be you, if you access the maps API over 25,000 in...

Google Maps: Cartographer's Revenge!

Sep 13, 2011
No, that's not a movie title, and you're welcome for never having to sit through it (although it might have a few... points of interest). Google...

Hey neato: Google adds weather to Google Maps

Aug 19, 2011
So now you can go to maps.google.com, click a button, and see what the weather is right now anywhere in the world. It's really more about cloud...

Google Maps offers live transit updates

Jun 8, 2011
Not sure if this is helpful or not but that kind of thing never matters to Google. They just build it. Residents of four American and two European...

Google taking pictures inside businesses

May 9, 2011
You might as well open your medicine cabinet, take a picture, and send it to Google now. Get it over with. Because they're coming for you. Google...

Google Maps goes crowd source

Apr 20, 2011
Google announced yesterday that it will soon roll out a feature that crowd sources the Google Maps feature. It's called Google Map Maker and it...

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Google getting edged out of China

Mar 30, 2011
Google search was yanked out of China a year ago. Recently, Chinese users have been seeing slowed Gmail service (which Google claims is the result...

Google Maps map of protests in Libya

Feb 23, 2011
Wired writes about a Twitter activist from Iran, Arasmus, who's put together a Google Maps map that locates reports about "gunfire, killings,...

Nicaragua invades Costa Rica after error on Google Maps

Nov 5, 2010
Apparently the way Google Maps draws one particular section of the border between the two countries is off by about 3000 meters, showing it to be...