Peugeot in association with Google has launched an interesting application [mashup], which allows you to make street view movies to promote its new car RCZ. As most of you already know, Google Street View lets you see real street maps of the world through 360-degree panoramic angle. Peugeot is leveraging this GSV technology to stimulate [...]

Aaron Hobson, a cinemascope artist has come up with beautiful pictures from all around the world collected through Google Street View cars. GSV is a technology that lets you explore streets of the world through 360-degree panoramic angles. This is very helpful for finding your way through the city or for spotting that right place. [...]

[USA Only] Padmapper is a useful Google Map mashup, which helps you find apartments on rents from Apartments.com, Oodle, Kijiji and Craigslist apartment’s lists. Fundamentally, it is another apartment search engine but with the power of Google Maps that makes exploring easy and convenient. Just enter city, address, or zip of a place where you [...]

Many times we wonder that how often Google maps are updated?. We want to know when our favourite location (home town, stadiums, places of interests) gets an image update in Google Maps or Google Earth. The official answer is between 1-3 years. So we keep checking them over again and again with false hopes that [...]

Google India Blog announced yesterday that it would begin collecting photographs of Indian roads and nearby areas as a part of Google maps street view. The collection will start from Bangalore and will eventually spread to the other major cities of the country. However, there are news of people already spotting Google vehicles in Mumbai, [...]

Google India Blog has called for volunteers to help them in mapping all the 13 venues of ICC cricket world cup 2011. By mapping, they mean to mark stadiums, important roads leading to venue and other area in vicinity that will be useful like waterholes, hospitals and police stations. For Mapping, you have to use [...]

Almost everyone uses Google Maps for their day-to-day directional guidance. And most of them face the same problem, which is the inability to use Google Maps without internet. How about saving them on your computer for later viewing?

If you are a fan of OverHeardInNewYork, the New York City eavesdropping network and community then you would also love Overplot. This is a beautiful mashup in Google Maps for all interesting quotes at their website.

Amongst the various hidden places that Google Maps has revealed, there are some which are obvious but funny in nature. Rhett dashwood searched for nearly seven months to find out to find out alphabetic characters in Australia.

Hey, Google finally implemented their map in Orkut. Actually this is in beta stage and I believe this is something hidden which you all must know. On the maps, you can see where your Orkut friends are located. currently everyone won’t be able to use the Google maps feature. We can expect Google’s Orkut team [...]


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