Taiwan, Portugal, and Switzerland now on Google Street View
Google Maps team has announced that they have launched Street View feature in a couple of new countries.
These new locations are: Taiwan, Portugal, and Switzerland.
Google has also now made available more special interest regions on the Street View service including:
Thunderhill Raceway Park
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Also added [...]
Google Search results now feature photos of places from Google Maps
Google has revealed that they have added a new feature on their primary search engine service.
Google Search would now display pictures from the photograph layers from Google Maps if the user searches for any geographic location like a city.
Web users would be able to [...]
Google reshooting Street View pictures in Japan
US based search engine giant Google has revealed that they are going to reshoot photos in Japan for their Street View service.
They decided to reshoot all the photos after complaints raised by Japanese authorities about invasion of privacy.
Google said that the photos would now be taken at a lower [...]
Google Maps now more popular than MapQuest
Google has conquered yet another online segment with their Google Maps service.
Hitwise has reported that Google Maps now receive more hits compared to MapQuest.
The report however admitted that web users spend more time on MapQuest. This is likely to be connected to user unfriendliness of the MapQuest [...]
Google Street View now in UK
US based search engine giant Google has launched its Street View service in UK.
They are covering regions in as many as 25 cities in Britain including Aberdeen and Southampton.
Google also launched the Street View service in Netherlands.
Google claims that they are already covering 22,369 miles of [...]
Google Street View now feature user submitted photos
Search engine giant Google has further enhanced the usability of their Google Street View feature by adding support for user submitted photos.
This service use the photos uploaded by regular users through Google-owned Panoramio.
Google spoke about this new enhancements: “Now you can browse user-contributed photos that have been [...]
Google Street View criticized in Japan over privacy issues
Google Street View feature is being criticized in Japan over privacy issues.
A group of Japanese journalists, professors and lawyers have demanded that Google should remove the images taken on the roads in the various cities in the country.
The search engine giant is currently providing images from [...]
GeoEye-1 starts sending first images
Google is one of the sponsors of the recently launched GeoEye-1 satellite which would transmit images back to earth.
Google would get exclusive rights to using the images on their Google Earth and Google Maps services.
The satellite has now beamed back first images which were part of the testing of technology.
GeoEye [...]
GeoEye-1 launches with Google collaboration
GeoEye has announced that they have now launched their GeoEye-1 satellite.
They have a deal with Google for this satellite. Google gains exclusive rights to the imagery provided by this satellite.
The search engine giant would use the data on their mapping services like Google Maps and Google Earth.
GeoEye-1 satellite is [...]
Google in exclusive deal with GeoEye for satellite imagery
Search engine giant Google has entered into an exclusive partnership with GeoEye.
GeoEye would now provide exclusive imagery from a satellite that is scheduled to be launched in the coming days.
Google would be using these images on their mapping tools like Google Maps and Google Earth.
The two [...]
