web mapping
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10 Cool Google Maps Features You Should Know About
Google Maps is always improving its features, here are some of the most useful you may not have known about.
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Google’s New Weather and Climate Tools, Ranked
Alphabet’s Google is setting itself up to be a one-stop shop for all sorts of climate- and sustainability-related decisions. The company announced a series of updates this week that aim to help users make more informed choices, whether they’re about buying an electric vehicle or preparing for extreme weather. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in…
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Linux Group Shares Its First Open Dataset for Creating Real Google Maps Alternatives
If you’re not Google (or, to a much lesser extent, Apple), map apps are damned hard to make. Last year, several major heavy hitters in tech, including the likes of Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon, decided to lay down their arms and meet under a flag of parlay held aloft by the Linux Foundation to make…
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The U.S. Government’s Google Maps Probe Could Send Ripples Through the Car Industry
Google is once again under the spotlight for anticompetitive practices by the U.S. Department Of Justice, this time relating to Google Maps and its forced bundling with other Google services in cars that incorporate the tech giant’s Android Automotive platform, such as those from Volvo and Polestar. Carmakers are forbidden from replacing Google Maps with…