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La fonctionnalité Street View de Google Maps vous permet d'explorer les villes et les sites touristiques en bénéficiant d'images des rues à 360 degrés. Ainsi, vous pouvez découvrir des restaurants, visiter des quartiers entiers et même planifier votre prochain voyage.

What does the geography of incarceration in the United States look like ?

An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, mashups and tools being influenced by Google Maps

The "Spiegel settlement database" is already creating waves in Israel. Israeli NGO Yesh Din has announced they will use the database to help Palestinians sue Israel for reparations and the removal of settlements from privately owned land.

One year ago, I started collecting screen captures of Google Street Views from a range of Street View blogs and through my own hunting. This essay illustrates how my Street View collections reflect the excitement of exploring this new, virtual world. The world captured by Google appears to be more truthful and more transparent because of the weight accorded to external reality, the perception of a neutral, unbiased recording, and even the vastness of the project. At the same time, I acknowledge that this way of photographing creates a cultural text like any other, a structured and structuring space whose codes and meaning the artist and the curator of the images can assist in constructing or deciphering.

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I’ve been overwhelmed by the reception to my previous post, “Styled Maps Using Google Maps API Version 3”. For the sake of brevity, I only included 25 examples in that post—but I’ve actually made far more. So I’ve decided to share a few more of them with you, and as before, I’ve also included their .json files. Enjoy!

With Google Maps API V3, you can customize Google Maps’s styling in three new ways: 1. You can selectively remove map elements 2. You can “simplify” certain map elements 3. You can modify the coloring of most map elements

IsItSunshine is a clever weather mashup that shows local weather conditions and answers a very simple (ungrammatically correct) question: is it sunshine? The site makes use of Google Maps with an overlay of large visual and very cheerful icons. No fuss, no feature overload. Just a simple idea providing useful information and executed really, really well.

En utilisant l'outil ci-dessous, copiez n'importe quel genre de liste d'adresses à partir d'Excel et elles seront géocodées, c'est à dire localisées en latitude et longitude. Les données peuvent alors être cartographiées dans votre navigateur, imprimées, chargées dans Google Earth, enregistrées sur une page web, ou transférées de nouveau dans votre feuille de calcul. C'est rapide, facile et gratuit !

Google Street View is a feature of Google Maps and Google Earth which provides panoramic views of streets so the viewers can look around at any place that has been covered. What is the difference between Google Street View and handcrafted virtual panoramic photography as of today? What is stopping Street View to look as today’s best VR panoramas? What are the current and future technology constraints? How will Street View look in 5 years?

The first thing Joy Suliman focuses on in the morning is the Alessi kettle sitting on her stove top. The funky Italian design prepares her for a great day. Just looking at the slick lines and quirky details makes her feel good as she pours water into it for her cup of tea. In gratitude to how this beautiful design makes her feel, the former CAN project manager decided her kettle’s story deserved to be told.

The Apple/Google divorce continues to come into focus: Apple quietly bought Placebase, a mapping service company, back in July. Apple doesn't buy companies it's not going to use. Meaning, Apple's getting into making their own maps. Peace out, Google.

Many people find the object-oriented aspect of JavaScript to be very confusing. Fortunately, the designers of the Google Maps API have managed to make it extremely accessible—if all you ever did was instantiate their classes and then build scripts around those objects, you could still create very interesting and compelling maps. Creating a cool map is firstly about content, and secondly about technology.