Here is the Google Map pinpoint of the purported location of the test.
The Google Map screen puts the driver spatially in the turn, no mental rotation necessary.
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If you want to check out how fuelish your county is, check out the interactive Google map the Sierra Club put together.
If you lose your phone, Mobile Me will display a Google Map that shows where your iPhone is, as long as it's turned on.
One Web site, www.scipionus.com, is combating the confusion by encouraging users to annotate a Google Map of New Orleans with information about specific locations.
There are photos of the office on their site, but the location is slightly different from what is pinpointed in the Google map on their site.
The group then verifies the incoming reports and places them on a Google map of Egypt, creating a web-based documentation of the extent of the problem.
Already, there has been an explosion of Google Map applications.
Confessing to Koenig's killing, Keyes used a Google map to point to a spot on a lake where he'd disposed of her dismembered body and gone ice fishing at the same time.
In terms of pure visual data (as calculated by Photoshop at the same level of jpg compression) the Google Map screen weighs in at precisely half the information of its prettier Apple counterpart.
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It utilizes a phone's digital compass, and read out the direction the user is facing, something that is apparently very important when navigating through public transport, while the audio component opens up Google Map features in a non-visual way.
Okolloh, 31, created the site using Ushahidi, a free piece of software that quickly creates Web sites to which eyewitnesses of war and crisis in out-of-reach places can send news by e-mail or text and have it attached to a Google map.
As some helpful readers noted in my recent piece on Android, Apple may be trying to get away from Google with map and location services of its own.
There is no saying how many have built big mashups from the downloads, leveraging the 100 million people that have used Google Earth, the map service from Google itself.
Programmable Web, a site that tracks mashups, figures that about half of the mashups it sees are based on Google's map business and about half of all mashups fund themselves using the Google ad machine.
In November 2010, a Nicaraguan general cited Google's map of the border with Costa Rica to justify a reported raid in a disputed area.
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To wit, the knowledge graph Google's map of billions of Web objects and concepts, and the billions of relationships among them would be immeasurably handy to Mr. Kurzweil's ambition to recreate human-style pattern recognition, especially as it relates to language, in computers.
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While we think it stinks that the Rock Hillites won't get NBC in high-def during the Olympics, we see that on a Google HDTV mashup map, they're about 25 miles from the Charlotte HD towers as the peacock crow flies.
But it is way behind Google (GOOG) Map Maker when it comes to making repairs.
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Google in June launched Map Maker, a service that lets people upload location data to its Web site.
The digital images are then attached to Google's online map system so visitors can virtually travel up and down a route.
Microsoft is hoping not just for bragging rights here, but a chance to win people over from Google with this improved map service.
Whenever you visit a web page with an embedded map ( like this one), chances are overwhelming that the person who created the map used Google to do it.
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Google first launched its Map Maker service in 2008 to allow users to help it add details to its maps of Pakistan, Vietnam and just over a dozen other countries.
"I thought if I could fill in information on North Korea, it might be useful in an emergency or a tragedy if Google can provide a map for aid agencies, " Mr. Hwang said.
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"In building its map application, Google made use of a new way of programming Web applications, " said Benfield.
The navigation system can display Google Earth imagery beneath the map overlay, which is sure to keep passengers entertained.
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With this in mind, Google has taken its awesome map technology indoors.
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Apple announced earlier this year it was replacing its mobile map software from Google with a new Apple-designed system.
The FBI wants it to be able to map information onto google maps with access to traffic cameras and terror data.
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