zbikos | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 29 2007 | google, maps, info
Google has been adding features to its maps at a fast and furious pace. Yesterday, it was terrain and wiki-style collaboration for its Web-based maps. Today, it updated its mobile maps to pinpoint your locations by triangulating between cell towers (or if you have GPS on your phone, it uses that, but only 15 percent of phones sold this year even support GPS). I just downloaded the My Location app to my Blackberry (sans GPS), and it pinpointed me to within a block of my location in Manhattan. I'm a little blinking blue dot on the map. Although, if I move around the office, it picks up another set of cell towers and puts me nearly six blocks away. Oh, wait, now it has me nearly perfectly on the right block. Now it has be around the corner again. At least it's got the right neighborhood—and Manhattan does have a lot of cell towers.
- zbikos | Shared With: Everyone - May 29 2007 | google, info
Quoted: Not to be left behind, Google announced their own bit of mapping news at O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference today: the debut of 'Street View' maps. The new maps ...
- zbikos | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 18 2007 | info, google
Alex explains that microformats will make the Web Browser into an "Information Broker" and suggests that this could happen in Firefox 3. He writes:
"Much in the same way that operating systems currently associate particular file types with specific applications, future Web browsers are likely going to associate semantically marked up data you encounter on the Web with specific applications, either on your system or online. This means the contact information you see on a Web site will be associated with your favorite contacts application, events will be associated with your favorite calendar application, locations will be associated with your favorite mapping application, phone numbers will be associated with your favorite VOIP application, etc."
(emphasis mine)
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