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Collecting Street View data

martijn — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:11:45 +0000

Saw this one over at Mike’s blog and found it funny enough to share with you people.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Must be one hell of a job!

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Collecting Street View data

MyLocation coming to browser!

martijn — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:59:20 +0000

The Google team just announced that MyLocation, the feature we all know from the iphone Google Maps application will be available from our desktop if you run a supported browser. A blue dot will automatically appear when Google Maps is able to determine your location.

Supported browsers currently are:

Google Chrome 2.0+ (using Gears),
Mozilla FireFox 3.5+
any browser with the latest version of Gears installed.

A step forward to bringing locally relevant results to your desktop!

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MyLocation coming to browser!

Put Street View on Full Screen

martijn — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:25:30 +0000

Woah, enjoy the views of streetview now in Full screen mode! by pressing the new button in the right hand corner. Quite stunning if you ask me!

Try it in Barcelona, close where I used to live, you will see the bullfighting arena ‘Monumental’ and in the same picture also another Street View car.
Try it out yourself!

(via Google Maps Mania)

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Put Street View on Full Screen

Some fun for the Easter weekend

martijn — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:36:32 +0000

Here is something from the Google Latitude team to keep us busy for the easter weekend (or whenever). It is meant to encourage people to use Latitude and discover all the fun fun fun!

You can find my personalized easter message here

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Some fun for the Easter weekend

What to do for Christmas..

martijn — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:55:40 +0000

Oh what fun it is to ride with Gooooo-gle Maps explained, hey! So what to do?

Start shopping! Or find your way to a nice restaurant. Get coupons, because we’re in the middle of a crisis here! Or in search of some entertainment and track Rudolph and Santa.

All with a little bit of help from Google. Because they’ve put together some special holiday solutions for you guys. Spread the word and go check it out here: http://maps.google.com/holidays

via: LatLong

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What to do for Christmas..

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martijn — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:03:36 +0000

Like Greg Sterling already said, nothing practical here, just fun&joy.
It’s a nice service provided by the guys at wordle.

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The Google Maps team can no longer help you

martijn — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:14:04 +0000

Credits go out to XKCD. I just had to repost this one

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The Google Maps team can no longer help you