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Nokia Location Tagger
(georeferencing your phone camera photos)
“What is it all about? Nokia Location Tagger is a small application running on “selected” S60 3rd devices that allows you to tag pictures captured from Camera application with geographical coordinates from GPS. The tagging process itself is sometimes called geotagging or geocoding (see also this article [...]

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BBC Correspondents Map (v2.5)

Version 2.5 of the BBC Correspondents sees new features based on user comments & feeback
A Great Mashup a few days old and moves on at a great pace…
Todays changes:

A distinction between correspondents and stringers, as requested by users
A full list of correspondents, stringers and bureaux, for users who have a [...]

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MSN Map Search in China

Detailed Searching now available in China

Mapping at street level with local search terms
“MSN today launched its latest online map search in China. Based on Microsoft’s virtual earth platform, the new service will include detailed information on 114 cities in China, including information on the public transit system in 11 [...]

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OpenStreetMap Nestoria (Experimental)
Nestoria are looking and experimenting with the OpenStreetMap Data and making some very clever and useful additional usability to finding property (to buy, rent or flatshare). In the UK or Spain

With the drop down (more search options) you can be more specific
options:

Balcony
Basement
Dishwasher
Fireplace
Furnished
Garage
Garden
High Ceilings
Lower Ground
Parking
Wood Floor

Census information can also be applied and [...]

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New nuclear plants get go-ahead
from the BBC News Top Story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7179579.stm

Image Source: BBC News/Jackson Consulting & DTi
To Location Map in Google Maps with link to the Wikipedia for each site.
View Larger Map
Thanks to Mike Williams (HTML in KML assistance)

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2008%2F01%2F22%2Fnew-nuclear-plants-get-go-ahead-kml-map%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘New+Nuclear+Plants+Get+Go-ahead+-+KML+Map’;
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Sam Knows Broadband - New Mapping Engine
Sam Knows is one of the best independent sites for finding broadband (Phone or Cable) in the United Kingdom. Now their Mapping Application is even easier use.
The ‘Old’ Mapping required both Telephone (BT) Number and Postcode to find out broadband availability. Now you do not need these.

Reverse [...]

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Google Transit Map UK - Real-Time Transit Information

Nothing new but a UK first, data from Traveline Southeast
for the Map above
Shame Transport for London (TfL) cannot make use of this.
They have the feeds (rss based) now.
Automatic Geocoding has undesired results (some outside the UK)
There is good coverage particularly in California, US
see more transit areas
http://maps.google.com/transit
Why [...]

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Testing the N82 with Sports Tracker (Beta)

Mapperz goes testing….N82 Sports Tracker (Beta) and Nokia Maps (phone, sports tracker software and bag generously supplied by WOM World)
http://www.womworld.com/nseries/category/n82/
Not going to go into details of build quality, looks or if it makes phone calls. There are plenty of other sites doing this.
Gets Go!
Sports Tracker enables the [...]

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Jump to Map (Beta)

Create Human Friendly links (urls) to maps.

Short, email-safe.
Readable by humans.
Never expire.
Always free.

Web sites such as Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and others, let you enter a street address and create nice maps and long links to these maps.
* It’s inconvenient to copy-and-paste these long links.
* These long links can get [...]

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Yahoo! Go 3.0 (Beta) with Maps

Yahoo! Go 3.0 services:

oneSearch
Yahoo! Calendar
Yahoo! Address Book
Yahoo! Local
Yahoo! Maps
Yahoo! News
Yahoo! Sports
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Entertainment
Yahoo! Weather
Flickr
Yahoo! Mail

“Yahoo! Go 3.0 connects your device to these Yahoo! services in real time. You can manage your contacts on the device and changes are synchronized with your Yahoo! account. The application uses widgets [...]

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UK and Ireland Flight Maps (Google Earth)

Created by http://www.barnabu.co.uk/
KML file available:
http://www.barnabu.co.uk/uk-and-ireland-flight-maps/
“The Placemark balloons include information about airlines and destinations.
Labels follow Wikipedia’s convention of using place names rather than real airport names.
Routes are displayed with exaggerated altitude. “
Guidelines:
“One downside of Google Earth’s highlight mode is it doesn’t stay switched on a after a mouse [...]

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Almost exactly a year ago, I joined the Maps API team to be a middleman(woman) between the literally thousands of Google Maps API developers and our internal Geo teams. So this post is both a summary of the 2007 and my first year here. I originally anticipated this being a short post until [...]

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I’m Joe Monahan, a 27 year old cyclist originally from South Plainfield, NJ and now living in Chicago, IL where I work the days away as a User Interface Engineer with Orbitz.com.
I’m excited to announce an addition to the Google Maps Open Source utility library: the ExtInfoWindow, an “extended” info window that allows [...]

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About a month ago we introduced Gmap2.enableGoogleBar(), a command that puts our normal logo against a white background and adds an expandable local search box. The local search box is based on the configurable LocalSearchControl, so developers immediately asked when they’d be able to use the same options for the GoogleBar.
Well, a ton [...]

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As announced on the Google Lat Long Blog last week, Google Maps has added a new Terrain map type that displays physical features and, quite frankly, is just dang pretty to look at. If you haven’t tried it out yet, search for Mount Everest, the Grand Canyon, Glacier Bay National Park, or any [...]

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