Nov 19th, 2009 at 2:30PM: Gadling would first like to congratulate Dave C., the lucky winner of our Moon Belize giveaway! Dave C. wrote: "I don\'t get the change to do as much diving as I like, but when I can, I won\'t miss it. If in Belize, I would certainly not want to miss the opportunity dive at the Blue Hole. Diving gives me a sense of peace I can't get doing anything else, and the Blue Hole just looks like a ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Gadling readers compile Belize must-sees
Nov 19th, 2009 at 2:30PM: Gadling would first like to congratulate Dave C., the lucky winner of our Moon Belize giveaway! Dave C. wrote: "I don\'t get the change to do as much diving as I like, but when I can, I won\'t miss it. If in Belize, I would certainly not want to miss the opportunity dive at the Blue Hole. Diving gives me a sense of peace I can't get doing anything else, and the Blue Hole just looks like a ...Wacky Google maps find - New York City art project?
Jun 8th, 2009 at 10:00AM: Google maps is full of weird and amusing finds - when you send a fleet of cars out to make millions of photos, there are bound to be some that don't look right. Just like this weird image from New York City street.. Did you find something weird you'd like to share with us? Leave it in the comments section! ...Angry British mob chases Google out of their town
Apr 6th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Here in the US we are used to being able to zoom in on street level images of anything in our area. Google started mapping up and down our streets years ago, and it all happened with so little fanfare, that nobody really got the chance to complain. Things are different in the UK, where residents are beginning to complain quite vocally about the privacy invasion caused by the ability to get up ...Inspired by Google Earth - teenager paints 60ft penis on his roof
Google Streetview comes to Europe - the good and the bad
Mar 21st, 2009 at 12:00PM: Here in the US, we are used to having Google offer street level images of our country. Their cars have been driving around every town and city for several years, and have snapped millions of pictures. On March 18th, Google enabled imagery of The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Italy. Of course, not every city has been fully mapped, but the new images do mean you can do some ...Heart-shaped Croatian island attracts curious, lovebirds
Feb 14th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Croatia's geography lends itself to love. The country is blessed with a scenic coastline along the Adriatic Sea - a stretch of land that is dotted with picturesque rocky islands and scenic beach towns like Dubrovnik and Hvar. Not surprisingly, Croatia has long attracted tourists and couples - during the summer months, it's the perfect spot for laying on the beach, island-hopping and plenty of ...1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a popular address
Nov 14th, 2008 at 1:00PM: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is one of the most iconic addresses in the world. Because, obviously, it is where you can find the Dollar General in West Mifflin, PA. Say what? Blogger David Friedman has a great post up on his Ironic Sans blog that shows Google Maps street views of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from all around the United States.
Sure, you can find the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ...GeoEye-1 satellite takes its first photos for Google
Oct 11th, 2008 at 11:00AM: The photo you see above, is the first shot taken by the new GeoEye-1 satellite. The image is of the university campus in Kutztown, PA. The reason this is so interesting? GeoEye has sold all the rights of their commercial images taken on this new satellite, to Google. Google laid down some serious cash to get sole access to these images, and I'm sure we'll be seeing the results of this contract ...Google Maps Mobile now offers public transit directions
Sep 25th, 2008 at 3:00PM: Google Maps Mobile has always been a pretty nifty way to get maps and local information on your mobile device. Since its first release, Google has slowly been adding new features, and the newest addition is mobile access to public transit directions. Public transit networks in 50 cities around the world have provided Google with their route information, which has been incorporated in the search ...Create high resolution maps of all your trips with Flightmap
Jul 19th, 2008 at 11:30AM: It's raining outside, so this morning was the perfect opportunity to sit down, browse through all my boarding pass stubs and enter them in a new application I'm testing. Flightmap is a flight logging program that keeps track of every flight you have taken. You can log the flight number, aircraft type, airline and geeky things like the aircraft registration number and your seat number. Frequent ...Sense Networks can show you around town with Citysense
Jun 9th, 2008 at 9:00AM: Have you ever, upon arriving in a new city, wandered aimlessly in search of a popular place to eat or drink? Of course you have. A new mobile company, Sense Networks, promises to make this much easier in the future with a new, somewhat creepy/bizarre cell phone application called Citysense that supernaturally senses the information emitted by cell phones and displays the results as a heat map on ...Google Maps Street View catches what looks like a drug deal in Chicago
Mar 24th, 2008 at 11:00AM:
That pesky Google van with the camera is up to its old shenanigans again! This time, it snapped what looks like a drug deal in progress on the streets of south Chicago. Of course, it could be something completely innocent; handing money through a car window isn't illegal. Maybe the gentleman's grandmother was headed to the grocery store and he wanted her to pick-up some milk and eggs for him? Or ...Track Zurich's trains in real time at SwissTrains.ch
Feb 17th, 2008 at 12:30PM:
I don't live anywhere near Switzerland, but this Google Maps mashup from SwissTrains.ch makes me wish I did. The map is a real-time visualization of public transportation in Zurich, showing exactly where all trains in the city are at any given time. Oddly enough, the system isn't GPS-driven. Instead, it's based on the timetables, "as Swiss trains are almost always on time." Makes sense. Hovering ...Google Maps: Hybrid out, Terrain in. Sort of.
Nov 27th, 2007 at 5:41PM: Google quietly replaced the hybrid, satellite-and-road layer on their Maps application in favor of a terrain-only view of the world. At first glance, I was confused because the ability to look at the satellite view while still being able to see road names was handy, but then I noticed that Hybrid wasn't REALLY gone, it was just renamed to Satellite. And satellite now has a checkbox that allows you ...Get Google directions at the gas pump
Nov 7th, 2007 at 11:00AM: For those of us who are prone to getting lost (come on, admit it...) and do not have a handy GPS unit stuck to our windshield, Google has announced a partnership with gas stations across the United States to offer the ability to search Google Maps from the gas pump. "The pumps, made by Gilbarco Veeder-Root, include an Internet connection and will display Google's mapping service in color on a ...GMaps Flight Tracker: Track Flights with Google Maps
Sep 4th, 2007 at 12:30PM: Whenever the three words, Google, maps, and mashup grace my screen, I get excited. What's cooler than real-time flight tracking on everyone's favorite mapping software? Not much. Well actually, there is -- I'm still waiting for a usable Google Maps weather mashup (with radar)...but I digress. From our sister-site Download Squad: "This Google Maps mashup tracks the status of inbound flights ...Google Street View now in Los Angeles
Aug 30th, 2007 at 10:00AM:
It's about time!
Google Maps Street View has finally made it to my home town of Los Angeles. This means that people around the world can now zoom in on Los Angelenos going about their day and doing the thing that Los Angelenos do, whatever that might be.
Naturally, a number of enthusiasts have already been scouring the Los Angeles footage for the bizarre and wacky, as well as quintessential ...Watch Bill Drive from San Francisco to LA
Aug 24th, 2007 at 8:37PM: This might not be up for long, but it's worth a mention. Bill Snitzer, a tech guy over at BitGravity has a webcam hooked up to some sort of mobile Internet device and is live broadcasting his drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Below the video feed is a embedded Google Map that shows his exact location. It might not be the most entertaining thing in the world to watch, but it's an impressive ...Easily Embed Google Maps
Aug 21st, 2007 at 2:11PM: Google has recently announced the ability to embed a Google Map into a website without having to use their API. Though not as powerful, the embed feature is much easier to use. It works much like embedding a YouTube video -- just copy the source code and paste. Here's how you do it:
Load up a map.
Click "Link to this page" in the top, right-hand corner.
Copy the HTML provided.
Paste into ...Google Maps Street View Circa 1907
Aug 16th, 2007 at 1:03PM:
I'm sure by now most of you have heard of or even played around with the new Google Maps Street View. If you've been reading Gadling for even a few months, you'll know that we gushed about the feature on numerous occasions. (1, 2, 3, 4) It turns out that Google wasn't the first to develop this technology. (And no, I'm not talking about Amazon.com's A9 or whatever it was called.) Way back in ...
