Oct

14

Fire Eagle:Yahoo! Opens Its Location Platform to All

October 14, 2008 | Comments Off

Yahoo just announced that the close beta period for its location platform Fire Eagle has ended and that the service is now open for everybody. We wrote about Fire Eagle extensively when the beta was first announced. Since then, a number of high-profile services, including Brightkite, Movable Type, Dopplr, and Pownce have implemented Fire Eagle […]

Aug

22

Earn revenue from online map traffic!

August 22, 2008 | Comments Off

The Search Engine giant Google developed geographic search functions with Google Maps and Google Earth. This enables users to locate any possibe addres available. Google Map provides directions as well as locations by keywords. These maps work on computers and mobile devices ans supports many business with interactive promotional tools. Lat49 is an online mapvertising […]

Aug

17

EveryScape plans to put interiors on the map

August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The popular Internet service Google Maps can guide you to the Upstairs on the Square restaurant in Cambridge. Google Maps’ Street View feature will even show you a picture of the street outside the restaurant. But Google Maps can’t show you the interior.

Everyscape: Check out Harvard Square — inside and out

A new mapping service from […]

Aug

7

BBC Sport’s Olympic Map - Beijing 2008

August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

You can have a virtual tour to the venues of 2008 Beijing Olympics. An interactive map on BBC SPORT can help you moving around the venues. There are more than 30 venues in Beijing to uncover, as well as sailing in Qingdao on China’s north-east coast, and equestrian sports in Hong Kong, to the […]

Jul

25

Bird’s Nest- Beijing National Olympic Stadium - View in Google Earth

July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments

Get the Google Sketchup 3D model view of Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium (National Olympic Stadium),  Beijing, China in Google Earth. The stadium will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 29th Olympiad, as well as track and field, and soccer events. It has got total capacity of 80000, and with extra temporary seating […]

Jun

24

Watch live TV channels on Google Map

June 24, 2008 | 6 Comments

It is very interesting to watch live streaming  television feeds from the globe on Google Map. If you are very much interested in watching global news, it is a good choice to watch it right on a Google map. Thanks to WORLD NEWS TV which provides twelve famous TV channels like CNN, BBC, Sky […]

Jun

15

Google Earth for desktop Linux

June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Linspire, Inc. developer of CNR.com (www.cnr.com), an easy-to-use, one-click digital software delivery service for desktop Linux, announced the availability of Google Earth for Freespire 2.0, Linspire 6.0, Ubuntu 7.04 & 7.10 (32 bit) desktop Linux users. Available for download and installation with one-click through CNR.com, Google Earth is a free software download from Google that […]

Jun

14

Find IP address and host location on Google Maps

June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Have you ever tried to find out the IP address of your own computer or the IP address of any web host? You can get all these details from http://geotool.servehttp.com/ website. Go to the page by clicking on the image below. By default it will display the IP address and location of your machine and […]

May

31

Compare Google and Yahoo! Maps

May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments

Online maps are available from many sources across the World Wide Web. First Google has entered into this map publishing service with highly interactive satellite images, maps and terrain images. The Google Maps API enable developers to create new applications and mashups, thereby pushing the Google Maps brand to mainstream audiences. Microsoft, Yahoo, MapQuest and […]

May

26

Google Map - Find your location with geographic coordinates

May 26, 2008 | 4 Comments

Geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude) are very important element for a geography scholar who is looking on a map for location details. Desktop, Network and Internet based GIS applications provide details on locations and their coordinate details with improved interactivity. Google Maps do not display their latitude longitude values of a location when you move your mouse […]

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