Find anything in the world with Google Earth, Google Maps, and related services. Get driving directions, find local attractions, and go on virtual tours.
The Best Use of Google Maps - Reader's Choice Award 2010
Google Maps is pretty useful for getting driving directions, but did you know all the other things you could do with it? Here's a few of those nifty tips and tricks hidden in Google Maps.
This is an entertaining quick game to kill a little time and do a little Google Earth fantasy exploring. It was originally written as an example of the Google Earth Web browser plug-in.
It's not surprising that people search for information about the flu when they're sick. Google found a way to tap this trend and use it to estimate flu activity by region. They discovered that search trend data was actually about two weeks faster than traditional CDC methods of flu tracking.
Latitude is Google's social location service. It lets you share your location and status with your friends from your phone or laptop.
Do you want to avoid a toll road, make a side trip, or avoid heavy traffic? It's easy to change your route in Google Maps. Just drag and drop.
Map a List is a third-party tool developed by Brian Sobel that lets you take a list of addresses from a Google Docs spreadsheet and turn it into markers in Google Maps.
Google Maps not only lets you gets driving directions, you can also get walking or public transit directions.
Is your house in the wrong spot? Does Google point to a business that is really half a block up the road? Edit it.
Google Maps is Google's search engine for locations and directions. It resembles a miniature Google Earth that runs in your web browser instead of on your desktop.
Want an easy way to find directions to the party? Gmail lets you easily get driving directions.
Orkut lets you view a map that shows you where all your friends are located in the world. Map locations are only visible if your friends have specified that information in their profile.
Google Earth is a map of the world on steroids. You can zoom and glide over stitched together satellite photos of the world. Use Google Earth to find driving directions, find nearby restaurants, measure the distance between two locations, do serious research, or go on virtual vacations.
Google Earth is a virtual globe with a lot of information. If you viewed all the information at once, you couldn't actually see the planet. To keep the Earth organized, Google divided the information into layers.
Go on virtual vacations. Google Sightseeing shows interesting spots you can visit with Google Earth.
This is Google map of environmentally friendly locations, complete with videos for the flagged locations.
This is a third-party map using Google Maps and NASA informatio to simulate the flooding that would be caused by global warming.
This is a third-party tool that uses Google technology to create a personal map that your online friends can flag, so you can see their location all over the world.
