Yesterday morning, an awesome new feature was added to Google Maps. That’s right, folks, you can now map your bicycle route.
Not only does the sweet new addition show streets that are known to be bike-friendly, but it also factors in car traffic and hills. So, a word to our… Read the rest
Yeah, you may be able to hit the slopes with Google Street View, but you better do it quick because the Street View camera man seems to be under attack by these Norwegians in scuba gear.
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[Via: Boing Boing]
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Pretty soon, you’ll be able to use Google Street View to see slopes and ski trails around the country, and perhaps, eventually, around the world. In light of the upcoming Winter Olympic Games, Google is expanding its Street View option to contain images of Whistler Resort in Vancouver, the site… Read the rest
Streets are so last year. In fact with the rise in popularity of biking to work, trails are where it’s at. Or so says Google.
The web giant is about to hire some pedicab drivers to ride the Google Street Trike around to get shots of place not accessible by… Read the rest
Our Croatian isn’t up to speed, but we’re still digging this cool alphabet put together with shots taken from Google Earth.… Read the rest
How many times a day do you hear yourself saying “google it”??? More than five? I’m not surprised. From email to maps to seeing what our houses look like from satellites, we use Google for more than just web searches.
Italian artist Fillipo Minelli has put together a photographic exploration… Read the rest
Using public transportation (and in doing so, helping the environment) just got a little easier with Google Maps’ new Transit Layer function. Google Maps already has a “public transit” option in order to help you figure out how to get from point A to point B. But the new Transit… Read the rest
A petition circling the internet seeks to convince Google of demand for a ‘bike there’ function to go with the current ‘Drive There’ and ‘Take Public Transit’ options on Google Maps.
According to a letter accompanying the petition,
The feature would take into account actual bicycle lanes from the locality … Read the rest
Sure, students at Leeds (one of Britain’s largest Universities) have voted to ban plastic water bottles from their campus, but what will they do with all the bottles that are already there? Maybe they should send them to Appalachian State University in Western North Carolina, where a team of industrial… Read the rest
