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9:00AM Angus Kidman | Coverage of public transport options on Google Maps continues to incrementally improve. Cairns is the latest city to include a public transport option when offering directions, covering bus services in the greater Cairns area. More »
Google Maps Offers Public Transport Directions For Cairns
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Coverage of public transport options on Google Maps continues to incrementally improve. Cairns is the latest city to include a public transport option when offering directions, covering bus services in the greater Cairns area. More »
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Improve Google Maps By Reporting Problems
8:30AM Adam Pash | Ever followed Google Maps direction to a “t” only to end up staring down the wrong way of a one-way street (or some other bum direction)? Now you can help them fix the problem so that, hopefully, it won’t happen again. More »
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Famous Locations Shows You Where Movies, TV Shows Were Filmed
9:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re the kind of fan that loves to dig into the history and process of film and television production—we’re talking to you, Google-Map-wielding LOST fans &mdash ;you’ll love Famous Locations, an index of where your favourite stuff was filmed. More »
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10:30AM Angus Kidman | Just looked somewhere up on Google Maps and want details on the place itself, rather than how to get there? Google’s newly-announced Place Pages gather together information on locations so you don’t have to launch a separate tab just to check minor details. More »
Google Place Pages Provide Area Information
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Just looked somewhere up on Google Maps and want details on the place itself, rather than how to get there? Google’s newly-announced Place Pages gather together information on locations so you don’t have to launch a separate tab just to check minor details. More »
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9:06AM Angus Kidman | Google Maps has incorporated traffic information for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, meaning that as well as planning your journey you can make an educated guess at how many snags you’ll run into on the way. More »
Google Maps Adds Australian Traffic Information
9:06AM Angus Kidman | Google Maps has incorporated traffic information for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, meaning that as well as planning your journey you can make an educated guess at how many snags you’ll run into on the way. More »
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10:30AM Angus Kidman | Google Maps offers public transport information for Perth, Adelaide , Canberra and a tiny fragment of Sydney. Now New Zealand is in on the action, with the Greater Wellington area incorporating public transport information. More »
Wellington Gets Transit Information On Google Maps
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Google Maps offers public transport information for Perth, Adelaide , Canberra and a tiny fragment of Sydney. Now New Zealand is in on the action, with the Greater Wellington area incorporating public transport information. More »
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My Tracks For Android Is A Fitness Geek’s Dream
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Android: If the GPS mapping and performance analysis of apps like RunKeeper give your Android phone iPhone envy, Google’s got a geeky alternative. My Tracks plots runs, cycles, and other fitness forays to custom Google Maps or a Google spreadsheet. More »
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Google Street View Updates, Makes Finding Businesses Easier
8:30AM Azadeh Ensha | Google today introduced some changes to its Street View function that makes it easier to spot an address when you’re in Street View. More »
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Google Latitude Comes To The iPhone
9:40AM Adam Pash | The good news: Google Latitude—the Maps feature that finds your nearby friends on a map—is now available on the iPhone. The bad news: It’s only available as a web application, so it doesn’t currently work with the Google Maps app. More »
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