Today, Google added a new feature to Google Maps - My Maps - that allows users to create a cool map using Google Maps within a few clicks (Google Blog: Map making so easy caveman can do it). Go to Google Maps.
Click My Maps > Create new map.
Add a title and description for your map. You can make your map public or unlisted.
Use the icons in the the top right corner of the map. These include: Selection tool - Use this to drag the map and se
Google says that it will take about a month (29 days 19 hours) to swim from New York City to Dublin, Ireland. Sweet, you can save yourself a couple hundred dollars for a plane ticket next time you go to Europe (NOT advised, but if you do, please say that you got the tip from us, we would like to be part of it too).
You can swim across the Atlantic Ocean on Google Maps, but not Pacific Ocean… Farther maybe?
I don’t know if Google is t
A user of Digg recently found a Yelp review on Google showing an anti-Microsoft logo while searching for Microsoft near Seattle.
It was up for a few hours before Google taken it down. “A new type of Google bomb,” Garett Rogers called it.
[image from Googling Google]
KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API - Google Maps API Blog
To start we now support GeoRSS as a data format for geographic content in Google Maps. We want to enable users to create data in whatever format is most convenient for them, and feel that by supporting both KML and GeoRSS we can enable a wider variety of people and applications to contribute content to Google Maps.
Joining the OpenAjax Alliance - Google Code Blog We’
Google Maps has no problem finding its own headquarter Googleplex, but having serious trouble locating rival Yahoo’s address.
Turns out that Google Maps is having trouble with spelled-out number (first, second, fourth), that is, instead of “701 First Avenue”, “701 1st Avenue” will work when finding Yahoo! on Google Maps.
[via (surprisingly) ValleyWag]
UPDATE: Gmail Accidently Blocks Yahoo! Group Emails
Posted by Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs
If ever cricket lovers needed an excuse to take a trip to the Caribbean, now they have one. The Cricket World Cup 2007 has started today, and it should be a great party. (I myself am a Brit who will hopefully not be praying for rain.)
Once again, the developer community has outdone itself creating useful mashups. The Radioactive Yak has detailed a few of the resources available which include:
Google India has also made a site available at http://www.google.co.in/cricket with useful tools of its own:
Searching for Love? Or Just Love to Search?
On the bus home from work, Jim realizes it’s Valentine’s Day and he hasn’t prepared any dinner plans with his wife Katie! Instead of panicking, he pulls out his Windows Mobile device and opens Live Search for mobile.
He navigates the Categories list to Restaurants, then Ethnic Restaurants until he finds Italian Restaurants, Katie’s favorite food
I wanted to write about this a while now and now I finally come to it. There are some interesting mapping services out there but Yahoo! maps and Google maps are certainly the most well known. Until now I liked Google maps best for it was one of the first services of this kind and at the time it was quite comprehensive. Well it seems that Yahoo! worked (really hard it seems) to mend that and now Yahoo! maps looks really good.
Today, we are excited to announce that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are coming together in support of the SiteMaps protocol. The goal of this effort is to improve search results for customers around the world. This protocol enables site owners everywhere to tell search engines about the content on their site instead of having to rely solely on crawl algorithms to find it.
So, why are we excited to work on this? Because by agreeing on a standard, we can provide site owners
