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Google Maps adds bicycle routes

March 10, 2010

Google Maps is adding bicycle routes for 150 U.S. cities, making the announcement at the 10th Annual Bike Summit in Washington (DC). “This has been a top-requested feature from Google Maps users for the last couple years,” said Google’s Shannon Guymon in Autopia. “There are over 50,000 signatures on a petition.” Google’s bike-mapping algorithm uses several [...]

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Where’s my ferry? Now Puget Sound commuters can find out

February 24, 2010

Think bus riders get all the cool apps? Now Washington State Ferries commuters can find out where their vessel is.

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Google Transit launches in Europe

February 24, 2010

Google launched Transit, the add-on to Google Maps that incorporates public transit routes and schedules, in Brussels this week and plans to roll out the service to other European cities at a later date.

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Website lets users communicate with government

January 4, 2010

The New York Times writes about SeeClickFix, the website that lets users communicate with government organizations. Users can post a complaint about an issue, locating it on a a Google map; the site communicates the issue directly to local government agencies. “A few weeks ago we launched home pages for 25,000 cities and about 8,000 [...]

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Go West Transit launches real-time tools

December 22, 2009

Riders on the Go West Transit System, which serves Western Illinois University and Macomb (IL), can access real-time service updates on the web.

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MassDOT launches interactive map to track ARRA funds

December 22, 2009

MassDOT launched an interactive web-based map that tracks information about transportation projects funded with federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.

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Bing Maps Beta enhances images

December 3, 2009

Microsoft announced a beta version of Bing Maps that uses Silverlight to display three-dimensional images and provide street-level views.

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Vermont students develop bus tracking application

November 18, 2009

Two students at the University of Vermont developed an application to track the whereabouts of campus buses.

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Swiss object to Google Street View

November 16, 2009

Swiss officials filed a complaint against Google in an effort to require its Street View application to improve privacy safeguards.

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Google Maps glitch renames Henderson

November 9, 2009

Rochester (NV) is a ghost town outside Reno. But Google Maps shows it where Henderson should be — southeast of Las Vegas.

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