Google Maps Roles Out Transit Training Videos

Google has roled out two new Maps transit trip instructional videos: For new users: As we are having more and more new Maps users and new forum members everyday, we customized an Introductory Maps video for people who has just about started to use Google Maps yet not very familiar with all kinds of great …

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Google Maps: New Customer Complaint Arena

Google Maps, since my Microsoft hijacking, has taken on a whole new role; consumer advocate and complaint department against major national firms. Google’s community edit feature is allowing the “community” (aka disgruntled consumers) to speak out in ways that were not anticipated when the feature was released. I was browsing Maps when I found this …

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VoteReport: Near Real time mapping of voter reports

Andrew Turner of the HighEarthOrbit.com blog, reported on his work developing VoteReport: an open public reporting system to be used during the 2008 US Election to track the situation as citizens cast their ballots. The simple goal is to make it easy for anyone to send in a report describing the wait time, overall rating …

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Google Maps: Don’t get pregnant in Wellsville

Sometimes Google Maps just gets it wrong. It is a large and complex system where a single switched byte makes all the difference.  For whatever reason if you do a search on Pregnancy Testing Wellsville , it wants to send you off to Amsterdam NY for your appointment, 265 miles away. While Wellsvile is rural, it …

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