You Are Here: How Google Improves Mobile Location Accuracy
Ed Parsons explains how Google continues to innovate in the location technology sector.
Halloween GIS Fun
Looking to add a little geo to your Halloween beyond the proliferation of Halloween Trick or Treater online maps? Halloween Cartography Gretchen Petersen has pulled … Read more
Web-based GIS
Find information about map server technology, GIS cloud-based apps, and examples of online mapping.
Celebrating Valentine’s Day, Geographer Style
What better way for geographers to say “Happy Valentine’s Day” than with geography? Nature supplies us with plenty of heart shape topography found around the world. Heart shaped islands, vegetation, and lakes make up this love themed geography article.
Crowdsourced Traffic Data from Waze on Google Maps
Users of Google’s mapping products will notice the addition of more detailed traffic data, courtesy of Waze, an app that collects traffic and roadway conditions … Read more
Google Maps Tips and Tricks
Google Maps has become an invaluable geographic and navigation resource for many people. Â Listed here a some Google Maps tips and tricks that you may … Read more
Google Maps Finds Old Treasure Map
On September 16, 2012, the intrepid Google Maps Street View Team found a chest containing a old maps and journals off the coast of Madagascar. … Read more
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 … Read more
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.
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. Â That five year mapping relationship is … Read more
Google Maps Games
While Google Maps has many real world and practical applications, there have also been a few fun with Google Maps applications created. Â Listed here are … Read more
The Politics of Google’s Mapping
Being one of the world’s leading online web mapping service means also trying to walk the impossible tightrope between the political bickering of countries. Â More … Read more