SpotCrime staffers plot the locations of 400, 000 crimes a month, overlaying street maps with an assortment of eight icons.
The bars and dry cleaners visible on its street maps of New York get replaced by the names of rivers and small-town roads in the distance.
It will also support Garmin's MapSource CD-ROMs for detailed street maps and will be compatible with topographic maps and nautical maps, like Garmin's BlueChart and Fishing Hot Spots.
On the road: Optional City Navigator mapping provides detailed street maps, millions of preloaded points of interest and onscreen turn-by-turn directions to your destination, and an optional Auto Nav kit adds a suction mount and car charger.
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At least in America, we do not follow the archaic lead of the paternalistic French, who recently fined Google, on competition grounds, for making Google Maps free to users in order to protect legacy publishers of printed street maps.
The young inventor envisages PaveGen systems being used to power off-grid appliances such as public lighting, illuminated street maps and advertising, and to be installed in areas of dense human traffic such as city centers, underground stations and school corridors.
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One sweet new feature is the inclusion of a 2.6GB hard drive, which obviates the need to be switching SD cards when you need to change map sets (units will ship with a full set of street level maps of Europe).
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The connected Audi MIB system powers Audi connect, which enables live updates of Google Earth imagery complete with Google Maps Street View 360 degree panoramas.
The 810 is compatible with optional detailed street or TOPO maps including BirdsEye Satellite Imagery, so it can guide cyclists for touring, commuting or extended activities where they might need onboard maps and navigation.
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Over two months ago, Internet search giant Google acknowledged that in the course of collecting information for its Google Maps Street View project, its roving vehicles inadvertently collected data, such as bits of web pages and email messages, over public, unsecured Wi-Fi networks.
It seems the 315-year-old map was found by divers capturing Google Maps underwater street view images.
The headliner: the addition of Google Street View for Google Maps.
After the user is prompted for his or her address, the Google Maps API fetches and incorporates dynamic maps and street view data of the user's hometown into the animated content of the video itself.
The app uses top-notch technology from Google Maps and Street View as well as geocoding APIs to make it seem as though Carole is really there, at the door, clad in fur and surrounded by snowflakes.
New features demoed for the first time today include a configurable home screen launcher, accelerometer integration in Google Maps' Street View, Pacman (which we can only assume will become the Solitaire of Android), and a new unlock UI for touchscreen-based devices.
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Now you run the risk of a Google car driving by with a roof-mounted camera, it snapping your photo, the photo being uploaded as a Street View on Google Maps, a blogger noticing it, uploading it to their website, where it then goes viral, so the whole world can look at their computer screens and laugh.
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The street mapping aspect of the new iOS Maps app pulls in data from Yelp and from what we can tell, Open Street Map.
The company already has significant interests in location services through its Google Maps and Google Street View offerings.
Internet mapping sites feature detailed maps that can pinpoint street locations, churn out road conditions and provide destination routes.
After a series of restrictions the Germans placed on Street View including giving people the right to have their houses blacked out on Google maps Google decided to stop driving its Street View cars around Deutschland.
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Stephens is more leery of recent developments like Google Maps Streetview, which offers street level photographs of entire cities, and Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, which tracks the behavior of users on thousands of Web sites.
More recent projects include a mobile guide to the street murals in Philadelphia, using tagged maps and information about the artwork, and online educational software so teachers can post questions and assignments, and students can help in teaching each other material.
She was immediately taken with exploring the Google Maps app and swooping down into Street View, having never used it before for much more than driving directions.
The 16 pictures are baldly factual temporal maps and read like a parody of street photography.
In many locations, it also appears to be missing accurate and up-to-date information. iOS 6 users have discovered numerous incorrect maps, showing farmland where there should be cities, incorrectly categorized businesses, misplaced landmarks and street addresses, and generally a lower-level of detail than is found on Google's maps.
This sense of digital literacy extends to maps as well, which now include actual street views, iOS compatibility, transit system schedule transposition, direction mapping.
The app is missing some of the most useful features from the former iOS Maps app: Google's transit directions and street view images.
Now, however, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is preparing to relaunch a native maps app for iOS 6.
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One clue to his leaving was uncovered by the Wall Street Journal last night Forstall refused to sign a letter apologizing for Maps.
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Street View cars, used to collect data for location-based products like Google Maps, mistakenly collected samples of payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
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