Tagged With "map"

Those Londonist folks are great to know about...I wonder if there are similar projects for other cities (of course...I'm thinking Paris).

Take your pick, here .

I downloaded it with my free $5 Amazon App credit. I'll review it when I fly. And for those who got the free $5 credit from Amazon that we posted,it works

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Michelin, the French company that makes tires, maps and food ratings has now leveraged the maps and food into a new product—quick reference maps of where to eat. The first in the series, the "New York City Map of Great Places to Eat 2015" went...

Overwhelming numbers of us rely on GPS apps and devices on the road, but for planning a trip or getting the "big picture," nothing really beats maps, especially updated ones with lots of data and extras. That's what keeps map publishers going, and...

A fleet of Google's mapping cars...now Apple is doing the same                 Photo: westbayhomes.org   Apple, whose 2012 Maps application got no love as a replacement for Google Maps on Apple devices, is...

We're used to using Google's Street View tool to walk around cities all over the world, and even through locations such as airports and shopping malls, but now Google has opened a new frontier with its first vertical set, the iconic face of El Capitan...

Our long-running geography-culture-nature puzzle has been running for months now, sometimes weekly and sometimes twice a week, but always with the question "Where in the World is Gumbo?"   Well, that started me on the next question: How much...

Even confirmed map addicts (me included) find ourselves relying on digital maps for many uses, including transit directions, traffic conditions and more. It's no surprise that there are rival apps and constant updates and changes in what's available....

Gooogle Maps App adds two new features for road trips.

Londonist again. For you who enjoy gleaning a sense of what came before in places you visit, have a look at Londonist's Anglo Saxon map of London. In their words, "a map showing the London area in Anglo Saxon times (roughly speaking, 500-1066AD). It’s pieced together from many resources, showing our guess at the roads, rivers, forests and marshland that characterised the region. The main purpose was to highlight the many villages, hamlets and farmsteads whose names are still part of modern...

For those of us who compulsively follow the flight map (when available) instead of the movie, or who want to watch the movie and still check where we are, there's a new tool: the Flight Map app from Makro. It depends on downloading data about flights...

A recent news post on Travelgumbo mentioned Flight Map , an Android app that can give you a live flight map display on your phone, even in "airplane mode," with the cellular radio features turned off. It works by combining known information on...

I used to enjoy a feature that existed years ago on Travelocity or Expedia (not sure which) that allowed you to type in a dollar amount and a date, and it would tell you where you could go for that amount. I just today noticed that Kayak has a...

Getting ready for a road trip still calls for packing and getting in the car, but when it comes to maps and routes and where to stop and where to stay…well, there’s an app for that. Quite a few, in fact.

Hilton adds a Google Maps link to its apps to let you see what the view from your window will be.

Michelin hopes its new 25 pages-of-foldouts guides to cities can find a useful niche among many competitors in the travel book industry.

In the US, I use the Scout GPS app. They seem to listen to feedback and have made several improvements in their updates of the app. Overseas I use Google Maps, but will try others

UPDATE: There's an important update to Google's navigation and maps: it's now possible to download the Google Maps for most areas and then use them for turn-by-turn navigation while off-line. Considering that there are still areas where cell service is weak and that many people don't have generous data allowances when abroad, this can be a BIG advantage. Available now for Android users, and soon for iPhone.

These sound suspiciously like the Knopf Mapguides that I've been using for years and love. See the fun video: http://knopfdoubleday.com/knopf-mapguides/

I'll have to look and see. The Knopf guides I had years ago combined a separate map and a small book in a plastic wallet.

Yes, do. I was feigning politeness. Let me be clear, Michelin has stolen their "slightly different niche" from Knopf and copied the most perfect little guides ever printed. Who do they think they're kidding?

Two things... 1. After a visit to my shelves, I see that what I remembered as Knopf products were actually the Fodor Citypack series. 2. I won't know for sure until my Michelin London arrives over the weekend, but one difference appears to be that the Knopf has 8 maps for 8 districts, while the Michelin identifies itself as 25 pages. But how pages are being counted I can't yet say. But I'm not sure that one could really apply the word "stolen" to publishing a rival folded-map guide, no...