You open your eyes and you’re in an unfamiliar place. You don’t know how you got there, you seem to have total amnesia, and you think to yourself ‘Where the *bleep* am I? No, not the plot for some 70’s B-movie, but my attempt to infuse →
MapFrappe provides a quick way to compare country sizes using Google maps
What is the size of Iraq compared to that of, say, Texas? They’re about the same, with Texas being slightly bigger. I know because I did a quick comparison using Mapfrappe, which you can see by clicking this link (scroll down a little bit, to see →
Get your weather forecast displayed on a Google map with “Full Screen Weather” – in your browser or on Android/iOS
There is something that makes sense about seeing the weather forecast displayed on a big map, which may be related to the fact that we are all used to seeing forecasts superimposed on big maps on TV. In any case, Full Screen Weather is a free →
Cube is an impressive Google Maps “toy”
I’m always amazed as to the kinds of applications game developers can come up for Google Maps, and this game is a great example. Cube takes real-life maps from Google Maps and uses these to model playable levels. For each level, you are assigned a task →
