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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: Personalisation is the future
News You can say 'map it' and it sends you an SMS message with a link to the map," she said. Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience,... [23 Aug 2007]
Google Earth maps onto the iPhone
News The iPhone version reproduces this core experience, downloading imagery from Google's servers as the perspective shifts and dotting the map with landmarks, photos and other information.... [27 Oct 2008]
Ordnance Survey opens up mapping code
News The data will be available in different mapping scales and cover the whole of Great Britain and promises to be more detailed than that included in other map mash-ups such as Google Maps. The Ordnance... [14 Dec 2007]
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]
Google gets map happy with Tele Atlas
News Tele Atlas, which was recently acquired by sat-nav company TomTom, will be able to take advantage of Google's user input tech to keep its map data up to date. CEO of Tele Atlas, Bill... [30 Jun 2008]
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]
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]
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. There will be a free... [13 Nov 2006]
Photos: Google mashes up its developer day
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]
Minority Report: 10 top iPhone 2.0 apps
Photo It takes advantage of the iPhone's GPS capability to plot your position, and the position of other Loopt users on a map. The application shows your position on a map and shows the... [15 Aug 2008]
Photos: Inside the malware hunters' den
Photo One tool used by the team is World Map (pictured) - which gives a visual representation of which IP addresses of customers using F-Secure products have been infected, and where in the world they are. Pictured is the... [28 Sep 2007]
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]
Nokia maps $8.1bn Navteq buy
News Nokia has said it plans to buy digital-map supplier Navteq for $8.1bn in one of its largest acquisitions ever. Using the handset's embedded software, consumers can view their current location on a... [02 Oct 2007]
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]
