Tag: Map
The BBC gets in on the map mash-up scene with its guide to Beijing's Olympic venues
If you're already getting a bit excited about watching the world's finest athletes wheezing their way through the Beijing smog, our lovely BBC has the perfect internet accompaniment for you. The Interactive Map has icons representing each Olympic venue hovering…
Sony saving us money for once – adds local garage petrol prices to its satnav displays
With it now costing more to drive to the shops than you spend on food when you get there, this little GPS innovation from Sony could be the answer to saving literally several pence a month.
Sony’s taken its Japanese PetaMap system and added support for local petrol price data – which can then be viewed on your Sony GPS system, letting users shave fractions of a yen off the price of each litre – just like the UK-based…
Google showcases new experimental search views: map, timeline, info
Google has announced a trio of new views for search results, currently in an experimental stage. They provide some useful alternatives to the bog standard “ten results per page” text links many Google users are most familiar with.
Combining Google Search with Google Maps unsurprisingly gives rise to the Map view, which will plot the key locations contained within a batch of search results on a map.
Great for a school project — a slapdash one at least — is the Timeline view, though this potentially needs to be taken as carefully as one would, or should, treat Wikipedia. It lists search results as usual, but plots a timeline graph along the top of the page, showing when things happened (according to the search results). Looks good for an overview of a person, a historical event, or a concept, which can lead to further study.
Flickr Places lets you see what Brighton looked like yesterday
Flickr Places is like one of those Google Maps “mash ups” that let you see all the back alleyways of Bratislava that Dave puked up in on his stag do last year.
The forthcoming application lets users see where the latest global hotspots are for picture uploads, with users..
