A busy Hertfordshire aerial company is operating more efficiently after equipping its vehicles with Quartix real-time tracking. Brightwell Aerials, of Hemel Hempstead – which employs four engineers and has two of its four vans connected to the company’s Pay As You Go plan – is also using the online system’s optional Google mapping facility. Director […]
Worldhotels Displays Real Time Rates and Availability of Independent Hotels on Google Maps
NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2011 PRNewswire/ — Worldhotels is the first hotel group to enable independent hotels to display their real time rates and availability in relevant search listings on Google Maps and on related Google Place pages. The revolutionary new feature is available as a pay-per-click advertising module connected with the group’s booking […]
Herff Jones | Nystrom Announces New Features for StrataLogica, Powered by Google Earth API
Social Media Sharing and StrataLogica Community Launched to Connect and Empower Users of 21st Century Skills Ed-tech Product
Flickr shapefiles public dataset 2.0 with shapes in GeoJSON format
Recall is was way back in 2009 that Flickr first released the first public version of the Flickr Shapefiles
Google My Maps iPhone App – The Cartographer – Best Travel App Finalist
Melbourne, Australia – Since its November release, The Cartographer, featuring antique cartography styling, custom Google My Maps viewing and editing, and offline map features, has been highly successful.
3D Measuring in Google Earth Pro
A fun update from the Google Earth team this week as they provide details of advanced measuring in 3D. So, why measure in 3D?
Google Earth 6 Adds 3D Trees – 80 million and counting!
3D scenes and models are now even more realistic in Google Earth 6 thanks to 3D Trees. From Google… With 3D trees in Google Earth, we’ve brought characteristic trees to life, from the palm trees that dot San Francisco’s bayfront Embarcadero Street, to the olive trees that cling to the Acropolis in Athens, to the […]
skobbler Introduces Offline Google Maps Rival – ForeverMap
The last map you’ll ever need · Complete map of Europe stored on your iPod, iPad or iPhone · No data connection required · No roaming charges · The first viable, portable digital map solution for iPod and iPad users without 3G Berlin, Germany, 5th October, 2010 – skobbler, creator of the […]
COMMENT Google’s `streaming’ search engine – impressive but that’s about where it ends
24 August 2010 – Google is supposedly testing a `streaming’ search engine which gives the searcher results even before they ask. Captured on video, the results pages can be seen to change according to the characters the enquirer types into the search box.
Google Gulf of Mexico oil spill Resource
From Google, an excellent webmapping resource to help you access the latest news and media relating to the BP oil spill in the gulf of Mexico