The Washington Monthly has an interesting piece on the political cartographic controversies that Google has become enmeshed in. Robert Boorstin, the director of Google’s public policy team states, “We work to provide as much discoverable information as...
Google has decided to resume gathering street level imagery in four countries. Google announced on its European Public Policy blog that it will resume Street Viewing driving in Ireland, Norway, South Africa and Sweden. Google had halted the collection...
The Official Google Blog released some summary statistics relating to Google searches covering 2009. The searches covered weekday U.S. based traffic and revealed that one out of every 13 Google result pages showed a map. Other spatially related search...
Google has announced that post-earthquake imagery is available to download as a KML file. The new imagery was taken at around 10:27am EST on January 13th, 2010 and covers the Port-au-Prince area of Haiti. For those that don’t or can’t view...