Tag: Google Maps
Google Maps for iOS 6 Released and the Onion Parodies Apple Maps
iOS6 iPhone users, rejoice! Back in September Apple dropped Google Maps as the default mapping and navigation app when it released iO6, instead replacing it with an in-house mapping app. After months of speculation and anxious waiting, Google Maps for iPhone and iPod Touch has been released (unfortunately, a larger version for iPad users is [...]
Geospatial Redux: Creative Users for Street View, Esri’s Service Credit Estimator, USAToday Goes with MapBox
Google Maps and Data News The largest Street View release by Google was recently announced. Over 250,000 miles of street level imagery was released in the latest update and includes increased street coverage for Macau, Singapore, Sweden, the U.S., Thailand, Taiwan, Italy, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway and Canada. Google’s litigation front got a little bit easier [...]
Maps with Apple, Google, and Amazon
Today marks the latest release of Apple’s mobile operating system which also means the default map app on the iOS devices changes from Google to an Apple version. Google’s Map app was the preloaded mapping app for iPhones and iPads but Apple made the move earlier this year to dump Google in favor of an [...]
How To Import Data and Make Maps with Google Fusion Tables
This GIS tutorial by Naveen Sidda looks at Google Fusions Tables, how to import geographic data from a web page, and how to create map out geographic data within Google Maps. What is Google Fusion Tables? Google Fusion Tables is a data web service which is built on the concept of cloud computing for [...]
Google vs. Apple: Dueling Mobile Map Apps
Ever since the launch of the iPhone, iOS devices came preloaded with Maps, an app built using Google Maps. That five year mapping relationship is about to come to an end. The past few years have been dotted with rumors, conjectures, and industry pontification about various geospatial acquisitions and job hirings by Apple. Over the [...]