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Bernie Jong asked:




If you’re planning a trip to Amsterdam or just want to relive your last visit there, why not take a virtual trip courtesy of Google Street View?

For those of you who missed the memo, Google has dispatched the world’s biggest fleet of high-tech snoops into the world to snap one heck of a lot of pictures. The vehicles, each mounted by a set of cameras, tour the streets of cities and towns recording millions of images in all four directions simultaneously as they move. Once these images make their way into the vast database that is Google Street View, any of us has the option to cruise the same streets and peep in the same windows and doorways at our leisure.

Happily, Google Street View crews have covered most of Amsterdam, so off we go to look for ourselves free of charge. You can even take a look at the famous Redlight district while you’re there…

Want to get a look at Rembrandtsplein, the famous park once home to a buttery and now surrounded by nightclubs, restaurants and strip joints? Go to Google Street View and type in “Rembrandsplein Amsterdam” Whoosh! You’re there. Click on the yellow man icon and pick a starting point. From there, you’ll be able to maneuver along the streets by double-clicking on a white ellipse that you can position almost anywhere in the view. Once there, you can look in all directions and zoom in to read club names, street numbers, or to check out an outdoor menu here and there.

Want to catch a glimpse of the famous red light district with its in-your-face display windows and cannabis coffee shops? Type in “Red Light District Amsterdam” and Google Street View will get you there. Stroll along the Oudezijds Achterburgwal and the nearby streets to your heart’s content. If any sights catch your fancy, stop, turn, and zoom in for a closer look.

You can get more specific if you like. To see the narrowest house in Amsterdam, just the width of the front door, type in “7 Singel Amsterdam” If you turn all around and don’t see it right away, rest assured it’s only a few steps away. It’s a chance to hone your navigation skills on Google Street View.

Learning is easy. Google Maps has an easy to follow video tutorial on the Street View link from its home page. Just drop the yellow fellow somewhere on the map and give it a go!

Then, some day, when you can’t decide whether to book a room at the Dikker And Thijs Fenice hotel on Prinsengracht 444, or at the Hotel Arena on S Gravesandestraat 51, you’ll be able to take a look at the facades for yourself, then take a virtual cruise around the neighborhoods on the back of your mouse. After that it won’t be so hard to decide which feels more like your own perfect home away from home.



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Mike Selvon asked:




If you want simple, no-nonsense directions, then MapQuest might be the best site for you. The website is very user-friendly and easy to use. On the other hand, the maps Google create can be easy as well, but there are many options for tinkering and having fun as well. You can create your own one, browse other people’s maps, change your driving direction route and take a virtual sightseeing tour in a faraway place, even Mars or the Moon! This is a map help guide for Google, showcasing a few of the hints, tips and tricks to making your mapping experience more enjoyable.

Many people are looking for map help to print or save their directions. The default print option is the step-by-step directions with a tiny one that is barely legible. For you map-mongers, you can get a larger full-size one by canceling out of the print dialog box (in Firefox), at which point a new window will pop up, allowing you to check a box that says “Show original map view.”

The preview then changes to a full overview of street maps and driving directions, where you can modify the zoom level on your print window. When it comes to saving your directions, it may be surprising but you can’t actually just save your driving directions map on the Google map site; you can save place-marks and maps but not the full shebang. Instead, you have to click on and copy the link to the map (on the top right corner of the map that says “Link to this page”). If you save that link as a bookmark or in a Word document, then you will be able to access the exact same set of directions for next time.

Perhaps you need map help customizing your own map on Google. Did you know that you can change the place-mark icon? This can be very helpful if you are creating a map of your city or a road trip one that features several different kinds of places. For instance, you can use a comedy/tragedy mask icon for theaters, a martini glass icon for bars, a bed icon for hotels or a burger and shake icon for eateries.

Once you drag and drop the basic icon and place it on the map, you can click on it and select “Edit” to change your place-mark. Here you can also change the title that appears on it, the description and the icon (by clicking on the upper right-hand picture of the icon). The My Maps feature is pretty straightforward, but you can share yours with others by selecting “copy link location,” emailing your map or embedding the map to your website or blog (by clicking on the “link text” button, copying and pasting the embedded link.)

Travelers often need map help finding notable landmarks. You may not necessarily know the address of the Eiffel Tower, but you can zero in on the location by typing in “Eiffel Tower.” Now say you are in the car driving but you have no idea where you are. You can turn your cell phone into a GPS device using Google Maps for Mobile right on your cell phone. (Check out the video for this on the Google Maps site). You may also want to explore the country of Japan to decide where you would like to visit, just by typing in “Japan.” You can also search for zip codes, airport codes, latitudes and longitudes.

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Google asked:

Google Maps Navigation features traffic view. An on-screen indicator glows green, yellow, or red based on the current traffic conditions along your route. A single touch on the indicator toggles a traffic view that shows the traffic ahead.

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mkbarth asked:

CLICK (More info) FOR VIDEO DETAILS With apologies to Eric Burdon and the Animals for looping We Gotta Get Out of This Place. See Video Response for better soundtrack remix. Serious Ruts — RR Maintenance Truck – St. Louis 38°37’10.65″N, 90°11’11.70″W en.wikipedia.org Looks like the RR maintenance truck has moved on. But you can use the time slider to go back and see it again. Don’t Walk — U-Turn Driver – Detroit 42°19’54.44″N, 83° 2’54.19″W Looks like the cab has moved on now. And they’ve repainted the crosswalk. But you can use the time slider to go back and see it again. I Think I Can — New York 40°42’16.47″N, 74° 0’30.56″W www.nyc-architecture.com Bush Pilot — Airplane Home — Oregon 45°24’28.31″N, 123°0’27.67″W www.airplanehome.com Stacked Up Planes — Google Earth Double Exposure — Venezuela 10°35’56.73″N, 66°59’20.53″W http Looks like the planes are unstacked now. But you can use the time slider to go back and see it again. Fill It Up — Airplane Gas Station — Oregon 45°25’30.77″N, 122°38’3.77″W www.thebomber.com Parallel Parked Plane (permanently) – Morocco 33°33’30.06″N, 7°39’58.66″W bbs.keyhole.com GE has been updated and the plane is gone now. Use Time Slider back to June 17, 2009 to see again. Area 51 – UFO Rest Stop – Nevada 37°14’42.55″N, 115°48’58.27″W bbs.keyhole.com (if you have Google Earth) earth.google.com (if you don’t) Looks like GE just moved Area 51 about 1100 feet toward the East! More Than One Space — MiG-21 – Germany 51°21’44.43″N, 7°33 …

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autoblogger asked:

Send addresses from Google Maps to your BMW. A new Service of BMW ConnectedDrive and Google.

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GoogleTechTalks asked:

Google Tech Talks June 14, 2008 ABSTRACT Jerry will talk about scaling Google Maps from the desktop down to mobile phones where usage is growing rapidly and will someday surpass desktop usage. He will discuss the approaches used in adapt- ing the application to work in a low bandwidth, high latency environment with a wide variety of net- works and devices. Mobile data rates currently range from 100 Kbps to 2 Mbps but more significantly, HTTP network request latency is measured in seconds. Mobile phone screens are very small compared to laptops, so we can’t just shrink down the view. User input is often limited to 12-key keypads plus two soft keys, sometimes augmented with an alpha keyboard and/or a touch screen. The key adaptation was reimplementing the AJAX web site as a client-server application, ported to several mobile platforms. We redesigned the user interface for the narrow UI bottleneck and added cel- lular-based location detection so people don’t have to type an address just to get the map open to the right page. An application-specific network protocol and tile cache help with the high latency network by multiplexing requests together into fewer round trips. A special “mobile” tile set helps with latency and bandwidth by downloading smaller map tiles while offering more frequent road labels to suit tiny screens. Compression techniques such as a compact-header JPEG format for satellite images also help. The server is stateless so scaling up capacity is mostly …

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Google asked:

Go to Google Maps: maps.google.com | Google Maps Playlist www.youtube.com | Plan a transit trip in cities around the world with Google Maps. Get step-by-step directions and travel times for your entire route, all in one place online.

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Ray Liew asked:




Recently, I came across a software which allows me to access great deal of satellite photos. Then an idea comes to my mind, I can perform some research with these satellite photos. If we have access to topographic maps, aerial photographs, together with the use of satellite photos and maps, we will be to make a great deal of landform research without leaving our homes.

This software which gives me the access to satellite photographs is Google Earth 3D. Although it is a free software, it also provides paid premium services. As a start, the free version is good enough for me as it already allows me to access the satellite images of great deal of cities (New York, London, Beijing, Tokyo, Paris, Singapore, and alot more) and places. I can even locate the house I’m staying in with Google Earth 3D. With the software, we can also tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings, providing even more flexibility for the research.

Besides displaying these satellite photographs, Google Earth 3D also let us find the distances between places, which is another big plus.

We can perform research on things like incoming roads, incoming water, outgoing water, incoming mountains around the places of our interests. These satellite photographs should provide us with great deal of information and idea of the places before we personally going down to perform even more refine research. The terrain feature and the ability to zoom in and out also allow us to perform analysis from the town aspect, or even from the city aspect. We can trace the rivers which run over a great deal of distances, the great mountains which link to the smaller mountains. There is some much we can do with this free resource.

Today’s high tech resources have enable us to carry out even more research, and the access to these satellite photographs is definitely one of the fantastic resources out there.



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Jay Harris asked:




Google AdWords:Many of you have probably heard about the book, Google Cash, by Chris Carpenter selling for $49. Chris reveals exactly how he placed tiny classified ads at Google.com and redirected their visitors to high paying affiliate programs – getting paid with PayPal within 24 hours to 2 weeks. You become an online matchmaker. You match up people with problems and direct them to the company with a solution and you get paid commissions from that company for sending them the business.

A person looking for a solution to their problems submits a request to a search engine like Google. Let’s say they type in “pet products.” The Google search engine will deliver search results in one of at least two ways. The vast majority of listings are displayed at no cost to the web site owner. But at the very top of the result’s page is a “Sponsored Link” ad and at the far right are also paid for ads.

You might be surprised how easy it is. To get started on Google AdWords, you apply online and give them your $5 and you’re on your way. You can have an ad running in less than an hour.

Please understand that the Google Cash or Google AdWords system does take some effort to make it work. There is complete online set up instructions on Google’s web site as well. Also note that this same process works on Yahoo as well. Another source you make want to check out is Perry Marshall’s The Definitive Guide to Google AdWords. When you go to Perry’s site you can sign up for a free home study course.



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Google asked:

Go to Google Maps: maps.google.com | Google Maps Playlist www.youtube.com | An informative and entertaining introduction to new features of Google Maps for mobile: Street View and walking directions

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