Instructables user hpstoutharrow was sick of storing his hiking maps inside a plastic bag, so he decided to look into ways to print on plastic. He ended up finding a way to print simple maps onto garbage bags using an iron and an ink jet printer.
If you’re in possession of a jailbroken iPhone, you don’t have to rely on “unofficial” offline maps to get you to your destination when 3G of Wi-Fi isn’t available.
Crowdsourced reviews and directory service Yelp has made its long-expected debut in Australia, launching sites for Sydney and Melbourne that collect together reviews of restaurants, shops, hotels and, in the words of Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, “anywhere that has an address”.
You can now find personalised recommendations of places to visit on Google Maps, based on your Google Places ratings.
OK, you’re not going to catch a bus there, but this is still cool: Google Maps now includes maps of Antarctica which were compiled by resident scientists using the Google Map Maker feature. A nice complement to the street view random penguin action. [Official Google Blog]
iOS (jailbroken): You’ll need to jailbreak your iPhone for this, but once you do, a simple tweak can put an accurate speedometer into the default Google Maps app so you can know exactly how fast you’re currently travelling.
Google Maps has added in a weather layer so you can now see current weather conditions and temperatures for locations around the globe.
