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Photo Mapplets lets developers add more functionality to any Google Maps mash-ups appearing on their websites - for example by adding news or weather reports to the online map. Parsons said 80 per cent of the... [01 Jun 2007]
Ordnance Survey CTO resigns
News The OpenSpace project will give individuals access to OS' mapping data and allow them to develop non-commercial applications with Google Maps-style features such as the click-and-drag 'slippy' map,... [11 Jan 2007]
Photos: "Citizen cartographers" mapping the planet
Photo OpenStreetMap started two years ago and is aiming to take on the likes of Google Maps and Ordnance Survey (OS) by creating a free open source wiki-style map of the planet. Here's an... [13 Nov 2006]
Open source rival takes on Google Maps
News Volunteer "citizen cartographers" are aiming to take on the likes of Google Maps and Ordnance Survey by creating a free open source wiki-style map of the planet. There are more than 3,600 contributors... [13 Nov 2006]
Microsoft's Virtual Earth goes '3D'
News The virtual billboards bring online map advertising to a whole new level. Currently, other mapping services feature either text ads to the side of the map or ads in pop-up windows or bubbles. They can... [07 Nov 2006]
Ordnance Survey mash-up takes on Google Maps
News The JavaScript application programming interface (API) will give individuals access to the OS' mapping data and allow them to develop applications with Google Maps-style features such as the click-and-drag 'slippy'... [02 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Mash-ups
Cheat Sheet The service will take ads placed on US uber-listings site Craigslist and will mash them up with Google Maps to make the listings searchable on a map at the click of a button. Likewise there are services... [26 May 2006]
Ask 'does a Google'
News Ask.com has also beefed up its maps and driving directions tools to add walking directions, dragable location pins that automatically recalculate directions, the ability to right-click on a spot on a map to add it to a... [27 Feb 2006]
Amazon swings into the map market
News The company's A9 search subsidiary is expected on Tuesday to launch a beta of its new A9.com Maps service, which lets users see street-level photos of addresses as well as get map-based driving directions. [16 Aug 2005]
Microsoft challenges Google with Virtual Earth
News Virtual Earth is a wrap up of a number of location-based services, including mapping of the world's surface, map annotation and location save and share features - echoing... [25 Jul 2005]
Google and Yahoo! unleash mapping code
News Google will include the Google logo on the map, a link back to Google Maps, and may show ads in the future on the maps," the company said in a statement.... [01 Jul 2005]
Skype's CEO: 'Phone calls will be free by 2015'
News Skype is working with emergency services organisations to come up with such a solution, Zennström explained, and emphasised the need to develop a way to map geographical locations over IP networks. When looking at... [24 May 2005]
Google offers UK maps and local listings
News Revealed late on Tuesday, Google UK Maps and Local Search are two services built around an interactive map. The mapping service allows users to get accurate directions between two UK destinations, while... [20 Apr 2005]
Google toolbar picks where you surf
News When web surfers install the toolbar in their Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser and click the AutoLink button, web pages with street addresses suddenly sprout links to Google's map... [21 Feb 2005]
Google gears up for geographical search
News Google said on Monday that Google Labs, the search company's research and development arm, unveiled a program that lets people type in a search term, along with an address or postcode,... [23 Sep 2003]
