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How to Edit a Location in Google Maps
Is your house in the wrong spot? Does Google point to a business that is really half a block up the road? Edit it.

Find Your Way With Google Maps
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.

What Is Google Earth?
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.

Get a Map From Your Email in Gmail
Want an easy way to find directions to the party? Gmail lets you easily get driving directions.

How to Find a Map of Your Friends on Orkut
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.

How to Turn on Featured Layers in Google Earth
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.

Google Sightseeing
Go on virtual vacations. Google Sightseeing shows interesting spots you can visit with Google Earth.

Summer of Green
This is Google map of environmentally friendly locations, complete with videos for the flagged locations.

Flood Map
This is a third-party map using Google Maps and NASA informatio to simulate the flooding that would be caused by global warming.

Frappr
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.