As Search Engine Land mentioned today, Live Maps has pretty decent maps in Georgia that have been useful to a lot of people looking to follo...

Continue Reading Exploring the Geography of Georgia – helpful tip to leverage UGC

MVP developer Chris Pietschmann posted some nice javascript code for determining if a coordinate is in a polygon.  Chris started with code from t...

Continue Reading Testing for point in Polygon with Javascript

A big update to http://ditu.live.com/ went out yesterday featuring real time traffic information in Beijing and a free Send to Mobile featur...

Continue Reading Live Maps updated in China

This morning’s news [SearchEngineLand | Chris P Blog] that Ask.com’s maps and directions site has migrated from an application built on deCarta’s (formerly Telcontar) mapping platform to Virtual Earth ...

Continue Reading Ask.com Migrates off of DeCarta. What’s the size of the self-hosted map market?

Loopt co-founder Sam Altman was onstage yesterday at Apple's DevCon to launch the Loopt client app for iPhone. You can see it in action in thi...

Continue Reading Loopt launches on iPhone with Virtual Earth Maps

Whether my subjective opinion of their projects is positive or negative, I'm always intrigued by the work of Stamen Designs. Like a piece of ...

Continue Reading Stamen Design delivers More innovation in UI for Trulia

It's been a rough month here on Earth as far as natural disasters go between the Cyclone in Myanmar and the earthquake in China this week. On...

Continue Reading Helping out after the China quakes

A few months back I asked VE blog readers for some advice on my next mobile. After investigating a bunch of phones I finally settled on the AT&a...

Continue Reading Why my new phone isn’t an iPhone

Marie Thirlwall, Product Manager for Microsoft in the UK, sent me some information about MultiMap and how starting today (hopefully by the time...

Continue Reading Accessing MultiMap in the UK. Plus a comparison of UK mapping sites.

This weeks episode of CSI featured Photosynth being used to recreate a high school gym in 3d from a set of photos taken by dozens of phone c...

Continue Reading Photosynth featured on CSI