"There is so much location-aware information out there for which online maps provide the natural interface, " said Mitrovic.
Tagged images can be viewed after shooting in online maps (requires compatible software).
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But as online maps become more of a social, crowd sourced phenomena, there is a good chance many will.
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The system takes pictures of streets and adds them to online maps to let people see what locations look like.
Benfield thinks online maps will increasingly become the interface for the Web.
It is rolling out here where there is wealth of online map resources and a population quite savvy in the use of online maps.
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In software, they arise when someone develops a company's online maps, calendars, photos, search engines and other products, usually through relatively small amounts of code that is posted on the Internet.
This digitally-savvy campaign includes Foursquare location based tours, online interactive maps, and active Twitter and Facebook feeds.
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And Google has already fused online services such as maps, e-mail and its YouTube video service with the iPhone.
There are miles of wide, uninterrupted, traffic-free walking and cycling paths in London ( with maps available online), many of which are being spruced up and connected for the summer.
The points are bought with real dollars, and used to purchase online content such as new maps, levels or games on Xbox Live.
The public needed more "feedback and interaction" when using services, such as crime maps and giving parents online details of children's progress at school, he added.
To make this a super easy process, just use an online directions website such as Google Maps or MapQuest and enter your start and finish addresses.
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Perhaps when your local crime maps appears you'll go online and have a nose at your local crime rate.
Google has scooped up more than 50 tiny software firms that have created various online applications: calendars, social networks, maps, blogs, photo sharing and word processing.
In a ground-breaking move for cyclists and would-be cyclists, National Cycle Network routes across the UK can now be navigated online using a new bicycle symbol on Google Maps, alongside the options of driving, public transport and walking.
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"It was the first phone with a really good mobile Web browser, and we saw five times the average usage of things like Google Maps and YouTube" compared with online habits, says Vic Gundotra, Google's head of mobile developer relations.
Online at MorelMania.com, you can find maps tracking the seasonal progress of morels as they appear, south to north, across the country.
At Google Schmidt has used the Web's openness to create an even bigger and harder-to-attack network of online developers who build software for products like Google Maps and now Android.
Boris Johnson, in the lead up to the London mayoral elections, announced his plan to publish "New York-style" crime maps of London, which have just gone online.
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.
For its part, Google's kicking in not just the operating system, but also an Internet browser designed for mobility (adapted from Apple's Webkit), a calendar, an address book, maps, e-mail and access to Google's online payments system, which can be used to buy things via phones.
We will require the publication of crime data online in an open way so that communities can build their own crime maps, see what crimes are being committed, where and at what time and hold their local police to account if they're not doing something about it.
It's a free online service that gives users the estimated value of a home, along with maps, aerial photos and a price sampling for other homes in the area.
Meanwhile, users are even invited to make edits to Google Maps, although updates are reviewed and must be approved before they appear online.
ForeverMap 2 offers an unparalleled map experience, delivering online access to global (continent and country) and local (state and city) digital maps.
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Its regional maps for day and weekend tours, and cycle tour maps for longer excursions, are available in book stores, at tourist offices and online (in German).
The more accurate map of his genome, published Tuesday in The Public Library of Science, an online journal, is most important because it is going to help scientists make many more such maps--and because it opens the door to people being willing to have their genome's sequenced.
First, maps are where the physical context of our daily lives and reality intersects the digital intelligence we access online.
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In August Nokia unleashed a new online brand called Ovi, Finnish for "door, " through which it will sell songs, games and maps over the air or a PC, often bypassing the wireless carriers.
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