Easily Capture Screenshots in Google Earth for Android
Learn how to quickly capture screenshots of Google Earth and Google Maps images on your Android device with a tap.
Google Maps
With Google Maps, available at maps.google.com, you can find businesses around your location or get driving directions to anywhere. Google Maps also offers virtual tours with Street View.
See all your Google Contacts on a Google Map
Learn how to create a Google Map using postal addresses of your contacts that are available inside Google Contacts.
Check the Current Location of Indian Trains on Google Map
You can now check the current location of an Indian Railways train on a Google Map. Just type the train details or the station name to know the exact location.
Get Email Alerts when New Aerial Images are available for your Area
Google Maps can send you email alerts whenever they add new satellite and aerial images to your favorites places.
Find the Exact Date When a Google Maps Image was Taken
How to find out the exact date when satellite images and street view images of a particular location were taken by Google cameras.
Create a Time-Lapse Movie with Google Street View
This tutorial describes how you can quickly create a time-lapse movie using Street View imagery from Google Maps and publish it to YouTube in HD.
Embed Large Pictures with Google Maps Viewer
Learn how to embed high resolution photographs into your website (with pan and zoom) using the Google Maps Image Viewer that cuts the large image into small tiles.
Find the Address of a Place through Google Maps
How do you find out the postal address of a point on Google Maps when all you know is the approximate location?
Take a Virtual Tour of The White House
You can take a virtual tour of The White House, the official residence of the U.S. president with the help of Google Maps.
How to Create your own Google Maps
Meet the best online tools to help you create your own Google Maps. You can build a map of your favorite cities or maybe a directions map for your home.
Find How Far You Can Go from a Location in the Given Time
Would you like to know how far can you travel from a fixed point in a given amount of time? This Google Map has the answer.
Find Street Names on Google Maps That Have Your Name
You can use these Google Maps to see all street names and roads that have the same name as you. Data is also available for Google Earth.
Drive a Car Anywhere with Google Maps
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to drive a car on the congested streets of Now York or the scenic roads in Romania? Try car driving on Google Maps to get an idea!
Subscribe to Earthquake Alerts for your Area
The USGS monitors earthquake activity around the world. Learn how you can receive custom email alerts for earthquakes in a particular area.
Live Flight Tracking on Google Maps
Here’s a brilliant Google Maps based service that displays live movements of incoming and outgoing flights on a Google Map for live flight tracking.
A Mysterious Sighting on Google Maps
Open Google Maps, search for 8877 Quarten, Switzerland (or 47.110579, 9.227568) and switch to Google Street View. Look around and you’ll find something mysterious in the sky.
Find Videos Recorded at a Particular Location
YouTube lets you add location information to your videos but offers no option for you to find geotagged videos. There are however Google Maps based mashups that let your easily search local videos on YouTube.
All the World Newspapers on a Single Page
Newspaper Map is a comprehensive catalogue of all the prominent local and national newspapers of the world arranged on a Google Map. You can zoom-in to find all of the newspapers that are published from a particular geographic region and read them online.
Google Street View is in India – Would you Opt-Out?
Chevrolet SUVs would soon be scouring the streets of Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi capturing photographs for Google’s Street View project. But are you comfortable with Google taking pictures of your home and putting them on Google Maps and Google Earth for public access?
Most Popular Tourist Places Around the World [Heatmap]
The heat maps drawn on Google Maps show how popular different parts of the world are among tourists. Most popular cities are in yellow while least popular destinations are in blue.