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Google Maps for Mobile now shows your location (without GPS)!

Here is the new feature of Google Maps Mobile, called "My Location" that will display your current location on the map even if your device does not have built in GPS functionality. How it works ? By taking information broadcast from mobile towers near you to approximate your current location on the map. Need to get directions from your current location? My Location will allow you to flip out your mobile device and do all of these things instantly and without having to clammer around to set your current location. See the video below and find the details here :

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Google Maps Street View

Here is a funny video of the Google Maps new feature : Street View. Try it, It allows you to quickly and easily view and navigate high-resolution, with 360 degree street level images of various cities in the US.

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Statisfied ?

If you are addicted to web stats for your blog/website/mashup, then you should see this new web site called Statisfied. It's a unique website statistics analyzer that plots real-time traffic on a geographical (Google) map. You just have to paste the code into your website and visit your own Statisfied site to watch the visitors appear on a Google Map in real-time! So funny...

More detail.

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TeleAtlas Annual Partner Conference 2007

Great days in Malta with the Key Players of the Navigation Market.

More information on the Event : Here on the You Find Web Site.

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Let's geotag our photos !

Geomentary is a new Google Map and Google Video Mashup site, a "one man show" (only ONE developper involved in the project ) to put some regional context to video documentary. He hasn't choose yet to release it as open source or not, but If  you have a video that you want on Geomentary, you can upload it on Google Video website then come back on the site, search and tag it.

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And here is another geotagging photo site ! To see the value of using locr, look through your photos stored on your hard drive and ask yourself  "where was I when I took that photo ?" Then you can upload your photos, the locr software assists in adding the location information either manually prompting the user to locate it using Google Maps, or linking to existing geo-data (from the GPS data devices). It is integrated with Wikipedia and GoogleMaps.  Cool, isn't it?

Interested ? Have a look to this article (GpsPassion) for more info about geotagging photos.

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Navteq Map Reporter

NAVTEQ has officially announced their re-designed MapReporter, a program to report on mapping errors and changes to help them update their data sets. It's a great move because map accuracy is the most important indicator of a user's satisfaction with their navigation system. In fact, MapReporter follows the start of a similar program, called Map Insight, from the rival map maker TeleAtlas. To read the press release of MapReporter click here.

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Google Maps JackTracker

Great news for 24h fans : Here's a Google Maps Mash-up called Jack-Tracker ! It's a new Web 2.0 mashup that combines Google Maps and Wayfaring with Flickr and YouTube, and it debuted last year during season 5. Now it's your turn to map Jack's quest across Los Angeles to save the US from nuclear decimation. Good luck :-)

ps. You can have a look to googlemapsmania for details.