San Francisco: Google's next frontier in digital mapping will span the world's shopping malls and airports. An upgrade of Google's mobile mapping service released Tuesday includes directions within stores, malls, airports and transit centers in the US and Japan. The initial index only covers a small fraction of the great indoors, but Google Inc. is hoping that will change as more owners and operators of shopping and transportation hubs submit...
10:28 AM, Nov 30, 2011
San Francisco: Google Inc.'s online mapping service has changed the name of a Libyan location to what it was called before Muammar Gaddafi rose to power four decades ago. The change came late Sunday, just hours after rebel forces pushed into Tripoli with little resistance. "Green Square" is now "Martyrs' Square" on the online map for Tripoli, reflecting what rebels are now calling it. The change was made quickly because...
06:58 AM, Aug 23, 2011
Bangalore: Google announced its plans to offer Street View of Indian cities on its Maps platform. "We are launching the Street View project from Bangalore as it is the IT capital of India where IT-savvy users will be able to leverage the benefits of the facility optimally," Google India product head Vinay Goel told reporters here at a preview of its latest product. As a user-friendly feature of Google Maps,...
03:50 PM, May 26, 2011
London: The CCTV camera will soon be a thing of the past, as scientists have developed a new flying robot equipped with the world's most advanced intelligence systems which could help spy on and track down criminals easily. Users simply need to point to a place on Google Maps on its touch-screen controller and the robot flies there at 30mph to record high quality video that can be beamed to...
03:19 PM, May 12, 2011
Beijing: US search engines, Google and Microsoft's Bing did not apply for the Internet map service licenses which was granted by China to first batch of 31 Chinese and joint-venture operators, sparking speculation about their future operations in that country. China which has tightened rules over circulation of maps in the internet citing security reasons, granted licenses to the operators including, a map publisher, several map service providers affiliated with...
02:16 PM, Sep 09, 2010
MapQuest is testing a fresh look with features that some might say make it look a whole lot more like - Google Maps. ...
03:27 PM, Jun 29, 2010
A pedestrian injured by a motorist while following an online route has sued Google for unsafe directions. ...
11:37 AM, Jun 02, 2010
Google Transit gives all the details about Delhi Metro. ...
04:06 PM, Mar 10, 2010
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