Google opened up in a blog post today confirming that they have been collecting data from Wi-Fi networks with their Google Maps Street View Cars as they have driven around. This...
Pick a road, any road. So long as it's in the UK, there's a good chance Google will be able to provide you with pictures taken from it. Today, the search giant made...
By and large, Google Maps is great, providing well-plotted directions and up-to-date contact information on demand and free of charge. But slight inaccuracies persist, and...
The back-and-forth over Street View in Germany has been fierce at times, with one Google representative recently hinting that the company intended to move forward as long as Ger...
About five months ago, Google started a contest to determine where its Street View trike would take pictures in the U.S. Today, Google released some impressive stats conce...
The European Union has asked Google to revise the way it stores images for its Maps and Street View services, due to privacy concerns.
Google currently keeps all...
German objections to Street View date back at least a year and a half, and by all accounts, Google still hasn't come close to convincing the German government that the program i...
With the games in Vancouver and Whistler right around the corner, many wonder about the extraordinary view the world's best skiers and snowboarders experience during the event....
The main goal of a typical retailer is to draw people inside and sell stuff, not have folks stare at the store's exterior. It makes a degree of sense, then, that a new rep...
About 22 months ago, Google was sued over its Street View program by a couple named Aaron and Christine Boring. The entire suit was dismissed a little while later. N...
Google Street View has taken in a couple more countries. Today, coverage of Denmark and Sweden was introduced, and there are new photos of many especially interesting plac...
Google has been granted a quite interesting patent for "Claiming Real Estate in Panoramic or 3D Mapping Environments for Advertising". The company filed the patent bac...