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Was This Google Maps Car Driver Using Google Glasses When He Crashed? [Image Cache]





Oh look, a crashed Google Maps car. Was the driver using Google Glasses like Sergei Brin? [Thanks Jelly!] More »



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Adventures of Apollo Astronauts Now Tracked in 3-D

Researchers have used new lunar satellite images to pinpoint exactly where the Apollo 17 astronauts took their iconic photographs of the moon’s surface. That data has in turn allowed planetary scientists to build the most precise 3-D maps yet of th...
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Foursquare Check-Ins Appear On Facebook Timeline Maps
Check-ins made via Foursquare will now pop up on Facebook timeline profiles, the free location-based mobile social networking application announced on its Facebook page.
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Does An Old Map Reveal Fate of The Lost Colony of Roanoke? [Maps]





Every American school kid learns the story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. But could its fate have been hiding in plain sight all along, behind some patches on a map? It's a major clue that could eventually...
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Matthew Cusick's Map Collages Are Stunning to See [Beautiful]





Dallas-based artist Matthew Cusick cuts and arranges pages from old maps, layer upon layer, creating stunning portraits and landscape scenes. More »



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You Can Take 3D Photo Tours of Famous Places in Google Maps Now [Video]





Google Maps and Street View are great for getting the lay of the land, but not so much for actually stopping to look around. Now Google Maps has added 3D photo tours of more than 15,000 popular sites arou...
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Google Street View arrives in Israel a few days earlier than expected
Just a few days ago we told you that Google was set to unleash its Street View service in the country of Israel on April 22nd, something it had been working on for quite some time. As we noted, there were quite a few problems with getting the project goi...
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Streamd.in solves tweet overload by only showing what’s going on nearby
I’m a big fan of apps that lets me navigate through all of the noise on Twitter in different ways. Even though I try not to follow too many people, since I know that I can’t keep up with too many at once, I still miss out on a lot of interest...
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World's Largest Atlas Needs Two People To Turn Each Page [Books]





So how does the book publishing industry battle back as they watch its market share being slowly nibbled away by e-readers and tablets? Well, by churning out an incredibly massive 6 by 4 1/2 foot world atl...
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Mapinterest lets you tag your favorite places in the world with pins from Pinterest
The idea of “pinning” things has taken off thanks to Pinterest, and people are collecting anything and everything on their pinboards. Other than putting these things on nice and tidy named boards, there’s no other context for your colle...
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Rainbow Brain Map Reveals Grid-Like Pattern

By Greg Miller, ScienceNOW
To the unaided eye, the most striking feature of the human brain is its squiggly pattern of bumps and grooves. But within those curves is a latticework of nerve fibers that cross each other at roughly right angles (above), acco...
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This Undulating US Wind Map Is Utterly Hypnotic [Maps]





Earth's wind patterns flow much in the same way as the oceans below them. This collaboration between Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg shows which way the winds of America are blowing. More &ra...
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Turn Your Favorite Google Map Into a Wooden Work of Art [Art]





Maps can be beautiful things, that bring back memories, remind you of journeys, or just make you glad you live where you do. A company called Woodcut Maps now lets you preserve a Google Maps image in solid...
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We All Live in a Watercolor With These New OpenStreetMap Skins [Maps]





Google Maps is mighty useful, but not everybody's a fan—including Apple, who seem to be ditching it. But OpenStreetMap isn't the nicest looking thing, and let's not discuss Bing. This new OpenStreetM...
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New York City Map Made of Brands Is Perfect for Tourists, Snobs [Maps]





Who cares about street names and numbers when you can have a whole city map made out with the brands of shops and chains everywhere? I will meet you at Louis Vuitton and Bvlgari in ten! See you there! [Cit...
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Why Apple Doesn't Need Google Maps Anymore [Apple]





The new version of iPhoto doesn't seem to use Google Maps for the map features in Journals and Slideshows. It's a small departure, sure, but it signals a much bigger play. Because thing is, Apple doesn't r...
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Why You'll Soon Be Using a Wonderful Little Service Called Pinwheel to Discover the World [Pinwheel]





"We're doing things a little bit differently," Heather Champ told me.1 More »



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Stunning New 3-D Moon Map Made From Lunar Data

Thanks to a new 3-D map of the moon, earthbound viewers can see its landscape with a clarity that only Apollo’s astronauts have previously enjoyed.
“NASA put out some amazing digital elevation data of the moon late last year, but nobody had r...
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French Court Fines Google For Offering Its Maps For Free [Google]





A French court has ruled that Google is guilty of abusing the dominance of Google Maps, and so has ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company. More »



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Google Maps Now Also Shows Where You Don't Want to Be [Google]





Nothing ruins a road trip like having to ford flooded rivers and dodge oncoming tornadoes. Thankfully, Google Map's new Public Alerts system should help keep you out of the path of Mother Nature's rage. ...
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Bing Maps Are Being Rebranded as Nokia, Across All Platforms [Nokia]





It sounds a little like stealing someone else's homework and then putting your name it, only slightly more expensive, but Nokia has convinced Microsoft to rebrand Bing Maps as Nokia's own. More &ra...
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All Maps Should Be Displayed on Multitouch Domes [Video]





The demo kind of falls apart when they start poking around Windows, but Displax's new 40-inch diameter Multitouch Globe looks like an absolute joy when it comes to navigating interactive maps. It's just t...
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Want to See Every Tree in America? [Science]





We may sing about purple mountains and amber grains, but one of America's most vital resources is its vast amount of carbon-catching, oxygen-spewing trees. Now, after six years of effort, NASA knows how ma...
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Look out Google, foursquare takes its 1.5 billion check-ins to the web with ‘Explore’
If you’re a heavy foursquare user like I am, you know that your check-in data from over the years is pretty interesting to look at. While it’s extremely interesting, you might not have known how useful it could be. Part of the reason for that ...
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Microsoft Patents Directions That Help You Avoid Scary Neighborhoods [Patents]





Microsoft has just received a patent for a new way to give you walking directions that take into account the many hardships you encounter while using your feet to get from place to place. More &raq...
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The Best, Nerdiest Map of the US Took 6,000 Hours to Complete [Maps]





Meed David Imus, the OCD cartographer behind one masterpiece of a map. It took him two years of daily labor to make his map of the USA, which has been officially named the greatest paper map of the year. ...
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100 Years Later: The Evolution of the NYC Subway Map [Video]





If you've lived in the Big Apple for any amount of time, you've more than likely taken the Subway. You've also probably wasted plenty of time staring at the map. Our video editor Matt Toder threw together...
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Google Earth On 48 Screens Is the Best Way To Explore the Planet [Video]





Touring the world in person is expensive, time-consuming, and often dangerous. And is it really that much different to playing with Google Earth on this gigantic 48 screen display that covers 40 square me...
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Google's Updated Street View of Fukushima Makes Me Want to Cry [Fukushima]


Just look at the destruction. Seaside towns transformed into inland mountains of rubble. Google's traveled some 44,000 kilometers through tsunami-ravaged Japanese countryside to digitally archive the immense damage. Be sure to have a hanky ...
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Apparently, even toys use Google Maps with Street View [video]
A beautifully done stop motion animated video called “Address Is Approximate” is making the rounds today, and stars a toy and its epic adventure using Google Maps with Street View.
According to its creator Tom Jenkins, here’s the story o...
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SkyChalk lets you leave notes on a map, anywhere in the world
If you’ve used services like foursquare that let you check-in to a location or leave tips, then you’re familiar with the concept of leaving your digital mark on top of a geographic location.
The service SkyChalk doesn’t want you to check...
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The Google Street View Car Is a Repressed Artist [Google]






The Google Street View car works hard, taking pictures for maps all day. Who knew that it longs for something deeper, truer, more meaningful? While we rarely notice, it captures beauty everywhere it goes....
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Astronomers Make High-Resolution Topographical Map of Moon

By Mark Brown, Wired UK
Astronomers at Arizona State University have used NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to build this jaw-dropping map of the Moon. It’s the highest-resolution, near-global topographic image of our lunar neighbour ...
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Check If Your House Will Be Vaporized in a Nuclear War [Nukes]






Call me paranoid, but I spend nearly every waking moment contemplating whether or not I'd survive a massive nuclear strike. I mean, weirder stuff has happened, guys! Luckily we can now pinpoint our chance...
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Google Maps Might Be Getting Too Popular to Be Free [Google Maps]






One of the central tenets of the Google Mothership's model is "free." Everything's free! Free, free, free. Except, um, when it gets too popular? Starting January 1st of next year, developers will be charg...
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Apple Buys Company to Add Killer 3D to Its Maps [Video]






For the past few years, Apple has been hammering away at building its own mapping platform to shake the yoke of Google Maps. It just took another step toward assembling its cartographic Frankenstein mons...
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NASA's Updated Topographic Map Makes Google Earth Look Like a Rand McNally Coloring Book [Video]






Who needs Google Earth? NASA and Japan just improved the most complete—and free—digital topographic map of Earth. More »






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Google Maps Helicopter View Is Like a Sweet Magic Carpet Ride (in a Chopper) [Video]






Google has already given us Satellite View, Street View, and Earth View, but today they said, "Wanna see what your route would look like if you were flying in a chopper?" Uh, yes. Yes, we do. More&nb...
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Here's a Map That Shows Where the People Who Google "Zombies" Are From [Zombies]






Apparently the only people who care about zombies are the people who live in developed, populous, Western-with-a-tinge-of-Japan big cities. The rest of the world just doesn't give a crap about the walking...
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The United States of Smartphones [Smartphones]






We judge people based on their tech. It's okay, everyone does it. iPhone users are prissy liberals; Androiders are pasty nerds; Blackberry wielders are your dad. And the Atlantic's got an awesome interact...
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After 12: The World Through Beer Goggles



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Confused Naked Lady Gets Caught on Google's Peeping Street View Camera (Yeah, NSFW) [Wtf]






This looks heavily like a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. An unsuspecting Miami woman just walks out of her home—naked, of course—only to find Google leering right at her. ...
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Map Proves You Are Paying Too Much For Marijuana [Drugs]






The September issue of Wired has a nationwide map of marijuana prices (excluding Alaska and Hawaii, where people apparently don't smoke weed.) It's fascinating to see the price differences nationwide, but...
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The Prettiest and Most Effective Way to Track Hurricane Irene's Impending Doom [Hurricane Irene]






I'm sitting on this sunny, peaceful, picturesque New York day staring at my computer. Why? Because Irenes a coming. See where she's currently at with the
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Google Street View Is Coming to an Amazonian Trail Near You [Google]






If you find yourself turned around while searching out undiscovered tribes, you'll soon be able to find the trans-amazonian route you need from Google Maps. Here's how they're doing it. More &raqu...
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The World by National Geographic for iPad: I've Always Wanted a Spinning Globe [Video]






Did we ever figure out the appeal of spinning globes? Oh, no shit. It's the spinning part. But how come I don't ever see them anymore? Is it not cool? I don't care cause The World by National Geographic ...
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Google Maps Now Shows You the Weather Anywhere in the World [Video]






Google Maps now has a weather layer. You can zoom in or out to get local, national or global results, and clicking on any icon gives you a four-day forecast, with details like humidity and wind. More&...
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The new weather layer in google maps is awesome and pretty....
The new weather layer in google maps is awesome and pretty. (Link)
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If Apple Supports Augmented Reality, Will People Finally Care About Augmenting Their Reality? [Apple]






However much weight big-names apps such as Layar throw behind augmented reality, it's furtherest from my mind when I'm trying to find a location—and I imagine you're the same. But with Apple Maps ti...
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Enable Google Maps' Awesome "Bubble Buttons" Lab for Quicker Calling and Navigation [Updates]






Google Maps for Android just updated with an awesome "Bubble Buttons" feature that adds phone call and navigation buttons to map results. Here's how to enable it. More »






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