Hot answers tagged google-maps
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Google Maps has a set of features in Labs just like GMail does.
Click the green labs icon:
Enable Rotatable Maps:
Save changes
In the maps, click the Rot Map button in the upper right of the map.
Rotate the map using the dial in the upper left of the map.
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In Google Maps Labs are two features which can do that.
LatLng Tooltip
Displays a tooltip next to the mouse cursor showing the latlng directly underneath it.
LatLng Marker
Adds an option to the context menu that lets you drop a mini marker showing the latlng of the position that the cursor was pointing at when the context menu was evoked
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There's a distance measurement tool present in Google Maps Labs. To enable this, click on Google Maps settings ( the Gear Icon) & select Google Maps Labs (or just go to the labs page directly). Enable distance measurement tool
Once this is done, you'll see a ruler on the bottom left corner of the map, click on it to enable Distance measurement mode ...
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There is a small little text saying "Image Date: March 2011" at the bottom of the street view (from the link you provided), though I can't confirm that it refers to the date the Street View image was taken, but its quite likely the case as there isn't any other images that it can refer to.
Hope this helps in getting an approximate date of when the image is ...
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Google Maps offers drive time in current traffic and a view of traffic conditions on a given day, but unfortunately not drive time on a given day. It isn't automatic, but you can do some planning by seeing what the traffic would be like on a given day on possible alternate routes.
Head to Google Maps and select your start and finish points as usual. Then ...
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Google says you can't.
From Google Support:
How can I tell when a specific image was taken?
Street View doesn't currently provide information about when an image was taken. We've heard from you in our forum that this information would be useful to have, and we'll keep that in mind as we continue to develop Street View.
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The satellite view is a static image. It will get updated after a period of time (known only to Google) if there is a suitable image available. That image will have to have less than a certain percentage (again known only to Google) of cloud cover so that most, if not all, of the ground is visible.
Images of urban areas will need less cloud cover than rural ...
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Google Earth and Google Maps share the same imagery. See understanding Google satellite imagery for more information.
In general, the imagery is one to three years old. You can see imagery dates in Google Earth to see when an particular area was last updated. You can do it one of two ways:
Click View > Historical Imagery
Click the Clock icon in the ...
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Building Maker is a great tool, but only available in a limited set of areas. However, you can download Google SketchUp to make any 3D models, including buildings for Google Earth. You'll need to upload geo-located models to the 3D Warehouse for review and publishing. See the geo-modeling section of SketchUp's Help Center.
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You can report the error to Google from the marker on the map.
After you search for a place, click the appropriate marker. The info window appears.
Click Edit > Report a problem.
Select the issue that pertains to this place and add any comments you have.
Click Report a problem. Google will investigate the place you have reported.
Taken from this help ...
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The sensor parameter is required by Google as they need this information for statistics as part of their licensing terms with their data providers.
Taken from this Google Groups post (from a Google employee by the looks of it)
The sensor parameter doesn't give you
any geo location capabilities it just
lets us know as part of our licensing
terms ...
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It's a bit hard, but a workaround that seems to do the trick:
Go to Google Maps - My places: http://maps.google.at/maps/myplaces
CREATE NEW MAP, name its title "Starred Items to export", set it to [x] Unlisted, Done
Click on My places again to get back to the places list, select Starred
For each starred item do the following:
Click on the starred item, ...
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You should contact Google directly to do this. Your best bet would be to use one of the options on this Google Maps Support page.
Fix an error on Google Maps
Help us make Maps better
Community edits allow you to modify the information you see on Google
Maps, making it more accurate for everyone.
Find out how you can:
Report ...
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You may want to check out:
Google's Building Maker: Create 3D buildings online
Building Maker is a 3D modeling tool for adding buildings to Google Earth. It's fun to use, and an easy way to get on the 3D map. Here's how it works:
Select a city from around the world.
Make a building with photos we provide.
Save your building and it will be ...
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In safari go to maps.google.com
Tap the bottom left icon on the map (it looks like a list).
An alternative to this step is to scroll down on the page before the map has fully loaded.
Click classic on the bottom of the page.
You are now in the desktop version of the site. The map will still allow you to pan and zoom using the normal gestures, the only ...
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I think the easiest way to do this is to create a KML file with all you lat/long coordinates and open them using googleEarth or google maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?q= "YOUR KML FILE URL HERE")
Some info on creating a valid KML file:
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/faq.html#howtocreate
and here you can find an excel to KML converter:
...
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Found the solution, might help someone else.
Using this url: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:latitude,longitude
will ensure the letter pin only shows at this location and does not find the nearest road/address.
Thanks.
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Click on "Powered by Google" logo which is located on the lower left corner of that map. It will take you to the original Google map.
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I don't think Google Maps does it natively yet, but there are a couple of third-party apps that do. Here's one that works: http://cartoo.dyndns.org/ (Another possibility is http://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-can-i-travel.htm, but it doesn't seem to be working right now).
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It's very straightforward. Just use the following link, obviously changing the latitude and longitude for yours. The z is the zoom index, you can play with it to get where you want.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=35.028028,-106.536655&z=13
I got this information by clicking on the "Link" button in the right hand corner above a map. ...
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NOT WHAT YOU "SHOULD" USE
That has already been answered... but...
You could always try the Aviary Screen Capture Google Chrome Extension.
It will allow you to rotate anything in your browser.
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I've found Scribblemaps
It seems to do what you want.
There's also My Maps in Google Maps itself. There's a help topic here.
Depending on your location, you can create personalized, annotated, customized maps using Google Maps. Your maps can contain the following:
Placemarks
Lines
Shapes
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Well, after discovering that the starred locations are also mirrored on Google Bookmarks, I wrote a Python script to scrape the coordinates and generate a KML file:
Export Google Maps starred locations
Go to Google Bookmarks: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/
On the bottom left, click "Export bookmarks": ...
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If you're looking to display it as a normal maps page, you'd want to use http://google.com/maps?q=SE1+1EB (Postcode format doesn't matter.)
But if you're looking to use the data from the page, you should be using the Google Maps API. Doing it by requesting a user-end URL could potentially end up with your server getting banned from making requests.
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Edit tl;dr You can star locations once you've checked in to them from Google+.
Here's a way I managed using my iPad and Google Maps in Safari. You have to have a Google+ account.
Write a status statement (like a "check in") from Google+ making sure you've specified the the location (i.e., the train station) when you enter the status. If Google+ can't ...
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Put loc: in front of the coordinate, like this -
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:-25.454435,-49.33136
Here's what you get -
When you don't use loc:, Google shows the nearest possible place for the convenience of the user as it's a random point. But when you're using loc: Google knows that you are looking for just the location of the point, nothing ...
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Perhaps tectonic plate shift and/or earthquake activity has moved your land recently. You should get new surveys done!
In all seriousness, yes, they probably did change something. They changed mapping providers for the US, but it's not there maps you are complaining of it's the satelite image alignment. This quite likely got updated, much of their older ...
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In the bottom right corner of the map, you'll see a tiny link: . This will bring up the Report A Problem dialog.
More information can be found here (it's the Learn More link in the dialog).
EDIT: Here is a page with a bit more information with other links and ways to edit information: Google Maps: Fix a problem
If this still doesn't work, the map ...
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I don't believe so. I thought you might be able to by changing your mouse wheel's zoom in your operating system (Windows: Control Panel > Mouse > Wheel). However, I just tried it and it doesn't do anything either.
It seems that even in embedded maps, the API only allows an enable/disable. It doesn't have any settings related to it.
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To save and print images from Google Maps, you should use Google Map Saver.
Google Map Saver (GMS) offers you an easy and free way to download big Google Maps on your PC as JPEG, PNG-8, PNG-24, BMP or Targa files. GMS is light (only ~400 KBytes) and very easy to run since doesn’t have an installer. You can save maps up to 12000 x 12000 pixels and then print ...
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