It’s been a while since we’ve posted! Rest assured, it’s because we’ve been hard at work on some great new things that will make PlanetEye even better, and easier, to use while planning your trips. Travel Pack Notes / Journal The first thing we’ve added is the ability t...

While the world waits for a tried-and-true navigation app from Apple, XRoad is taking advantage of the situation by offering up its G-Map app in the interim. Kicking Tires decided to take the new software for a spin, and while the map quality took a pretty harsh beating, the overall offering was hig...

I’m gonna need to work my way up to doing that again, truly. Every now and then, when we’ve had a really nice weather weekend in the midst of winter, a bunch of friends would go for a little walk in familiar or unfamiliar areas. The larger the group, the slower we’d make our way pl...

If you were looking for a great example of a collaborative map-reduce, then you don't have look much further than the amount of feedback and commentary that the earlier 'Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser' post received in a short span of twenty four hours. After making appearances on Slashdot,...

This is a gallery of some of the best of Google Street Views. Most of the pictures are unexplainable, so feel free to make up your own story as to what's happening. Here, I'll get you started. "THAT'S MY BIKE PUNK!" Hit the jump for 14 more of the craziness....

I spent most of this afternoon at the Google East HQ at the Google Maps and Earth Hackathon. I am very glad I attended as I entered with basically zero knowledge about how to write code for Google Maps and now I know enough to get started. About 40 people attended the hackathon and surprisingly only...

What the hell is this? Neurons firing up inside a brain? An installation with several Tesla coils? A weird electrical storm phenomenon? A color-inverted photo of an spiders orgy? A new nano-technology organic-based processor? Actually, it's Google Maps "mapplet", like Ground Zero, the nuke your fav ...

Israel is a thriving country, so why have various map-makers wiped us off? Beware before buying globes and maps. Check carefully and boycott those which don't include Israel. Rahel was surprised to discover "Palestine" on a globe in place of Israel at the International Book Fair. Newsweek, never Isr...

View Larger Map Here is a map of ten new bridge reconstruction projects in Tennessee funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Work begins this month. The initial spending through TDOT favors Republican districts 2 to 1. Carroll County - Westport Road Bridges over the Big Sandy R...

The two most important things to look for when shopping for a new apartment on Craigslist are price and location. PadMapper maps Craigslist's apartment listings on a Google Map for an at-a-glance look at available offerings. Previously mentioned MapsKrieg covers the same basic territory, but PadMapp...