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On Friday I was riding back to school on the Springwater Corridor and rode past the Google Street View Tricycle. The Springwater Corridor is a bike and pedestrian trail in Southeast Portland that is part of the partially completed 40 Mile Loop. The Street View Tricycle is used by Google to capture images for Google [...]
Spent some time poking around with the new Google Maps Transit layer. You can now get transit information for 50 cities around the world, including Portland. In the case of Portland, the information is not based on the scheduled time, but rather the estimated time based on GPS tracking of the bus or train in [...]
I spent some time this morning playing around with the new features in Google Maps on the iPhone. I am more and more impressed with this tool. With this update they have added transit and walking directions in addition to driving directions. Now when you are plotting a route you can see separate results for [...]
Today CNET reports that Google has added translations to its offerings for the iPhone.
Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information: The Google Docs Blog posts today about a new feature in Google Docs Spreadsheets called forms. It basically allows you to share a Google Docs Spreadsheet as a form with others and the data they enter in that form is automatically added to a Google Docs Spreadsheet. So rather [...]
Official Google Docs Blog: New features for 2008!: Google has added some new features to its Google Docs applications. These include the ability to create sub folders and the ability to rename documents within the Docs home toolbar view. The one that is of most interest to me is the ability to embed Google Docs [...]
Google SketchUp For Dummies, by Aidan Chopra, is out and available for purchase. Chapter one is available as a free download, and in addition the author has posted on YouTube, video tutorials that accompany the book. Also interesting is that he has posted a listing of corrections. Basically things that are incorrect in the printed [...]
SketchUp Buildings – This weblog highlights the newest buildings that have been uploaded to the Google 3D warehouse.
Chris O’Sullivan has created a Rails application (Display KML on a Map) that let’s you quickly test KML code directly in Google Maps. While Google Maps will display KML files, the KML file first has to be saved someplace. This method allows you to copy and paste the KML code into a text field and [...]
