It seems Google is now back-tracking a little in the wake of last year’s announcement of hikes in fees for the usage of the Google Maps API. It seems many developers, including the likes of foursquare have bailed out on Google (in favor of OSM and other online map service providers) and so Google has […]
Google Maps Coordinate for Workforce Management
Something new this week out of the Google Lat/Long blog for the enterprise – Google Maps Coordinate, a workforce management tool designed to improve communication between businesses and mobile workers and enable collaboration between teams with your mobile assets. Simply put, Google Maps Coordinate combines the power of Google’s mapping technologies with modern smartphones to […]
StreetViolence.org, Crowd Sourcing Crime reports and a Citizen Warning System on the Map
I recently read about an interesting project underway in the UK, this courtesy of an article from the MailOnline – The London Mugging Map! Indeed a very interesting project that depends on crowd-sourced information to inform and educate the population on violence. Here’s the idea… using the service (See StreetViolence.org) the user located a place […]
Google Maps US Election Results, Starting in Iowa
For those looking to follow the 2012 US Election, look no further than Google and the Google Election Results map and data resource. Google Politics and elections is in full steam with live data feeds currently being provided at the time of writing (Jan 3, 2012) this story. The resource provides a map with election […]
Google Maps API Usage Limits and a new APi Premier (for mobile and desktop)
Google is making noise in the Geo Community this week with details of a charge for use of their popular Maps API (used by some 350,000 Geo devs around teh World) . So, what does this mean? Well, for basic mapping sites business will be as usual for the most part, however, for power users […]
Google Enlists Crowd Sourced Community For Map Maker Canada
Yes indeed Canada, you finally have access to Google Map Maker, Google’s crowd-sourcing effort that enables you to contribute and clean up Google map data – Think OSM for Google! Map Maker was launched months ago in the US and is also available in many other countries around the Globe, now finally Canada gets it […]
InstaEarth Puts Your Instagram photos on a Google map
I’m a big fan and user of Instagram on iOS. Here’s a nice implementation of the Instagram API along with google Maps. About the app from the developers… InstaEarth is a way to discover and view beautiful Instagram photography taken around the world. View your feed, friends’ feeds, popular photos, or navigate the map and […]
Putting Food Inspections On The Map With Google Maps – #OpenGov
There’s no questioning that as Government become more transparent and make more data easily available to the public in usable data formats that awesome apps and excellent examples of civic engagement will result – enter the Seattle Food Inspection Map. See http://www.dinegerous.com/ Using this great mashup with data scraped from the King County Department of […]
Community Map Edits for Google Maps with Map Maker
Have you ever had the need to make edits to a Google map? Google’s Map Maker service enables you to provide them with updates or additions to the map… it’s eerily similar to the way cool OpenStreetMap concept enlisting the help of the crowd. Using the Map Maker tools, users can quickly provide map updates, […]