Tag: Maps
Google Maps just released a new feature that lets you actually look around the street. It's basically a set of 360* photos at continuous intervals.
How To:
- Blue outlines show roads where street view is available.
- This icon shows where you are on the map. The green arrow points in the direction you're looking. You can drag the icon to navigate to a different location. You can also just click on a blue outlined road to go there.
- Drag the street view to look around 360°. Use the arrow buttons to navigate down the street. You can...
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Microsoft Live Search Maps will today begin offering three-dimensional, photo-realistic views of New York City buildings and landscapes, with perspectives that few people — apart from Superman — have ever seen. The free online service will provide a unique look at many of New York’s iconic locations, along with local listings, ratings and reviews and driving directions to help people easily find, discover, plan and share relevant location information that is important to them on the Web.
Here’s a great video of the new 3-D rendering...
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Yahoo today will tie together a bunch of its properties — Flickr, Yahoo Maps, Upcoming, and Yahoo Local. These are natural and powerful combinations of existing projects and acquisitions, and of course the question is what took Yahoo so long.
Geo tagging on sites like flickr is going to make the future of mapping, photo sharing, image searching and people locating very interesting. I won’t be using this for a lot of my old photos because it would just be tedious to add all of those photos to the map. I will, however, use it going...
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Yahoo! brought its Trip Planner out of a 9 month beta period today and it’s an interesting example of cool Web 2.0 apps aimed for popular adoption. Users can drag and drop Flickr photos from a pop-up of their Flickr sets to illustrate travel destinations. Maps are put to a commercial use beyond illustrating the geography of search results. Blogging via Yahoo! 360 takes destination narrative to the next level, beyond short reviews. This may well be part of what mainstream adoption of Web 2.0 looks like.
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