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Google Maps 6.0 Will Show You The Inside Of Certain Locations
Getting lost inside the sprawling wonderland that is any IKEA is likely a shared experience, and one that may happen less for Android smartphone users. Google Maps 6.0 rolled out some changes on Tuesday, including indoor mapping of certain retail locations and airports. More »

Google Maps Error Makes Guests Miss Weddings And Funerals
A week after her story went up in the Star Ledger, a woman is happy to report that Google Maps is no longer telling people that her driveway is the entrance to the state park. That's good, but now there's a new story of people missing weddings and funerals because Google Maps shows a church as being clear on the other side of town from where it really is. More »

Google Maps Says My Driveway Is The Entrance To State Park
For more than 23 years, Laurie has lived in a New Jersey home bordering a state park. And for two decades, her driveway went unmolested by folks looking for the park entrance. But now she's got six signs up in her drive to tell people that her land is not for their recreational use, all because of a goof on Google Maps. More »

Find Foreclosures Using Google Maps
You can check out foreclosures all over the US just by drilling down in Google Maps. More »

Google Store View Cameraman Spotted In The Wild
Reader Yankees368 was dining at Breeze NY when a Google employee tromped in and started taking pictures of the restaurant's interior, including the food he was about to eat, for the Google Store View project. More »

Google In Hot Water For Collecting Data From Your Wireless Networks
A group of attorneys general have decided to go ahead with a multi-state investigation of the Google Streets View project after it was revealed that the cars it uses to capture the images were also capturing data from people's home and business wireless networks. The capturing was done in 30 countries and the government of France says that it included people's passwords and email. More »

Woman Sues Google Maps After Getting Hit By Car
A woman from L.A. has filed a lawsuit against Internet leviathan Google, claiming that the walking directions she was given by its Google Maps site led her to walk down a Utah highway, where she was hit by a car. More »

Is Google Planning To Add Store Views To Google Maps?
A store in New York City called Oh Nuts, which apparently sells nuts and nut-based goods, told the blog Search Engine Land that someone from Google showed up and took a series of photos of the interior as part of an upcoming "Google Store Views" service. Google has officially said no comment, so I guess now it's a waiting game to see if this shows up as an offshoot of Google's street view offering, or if Oh Nuts reports in the next few days that they've had their entire inventory stolen by nut fiends who knew the layout suspiciously well. More »

Quickly Find Nearby Flu Shots With Google Maps

—>Want to quickly and easily know where you can get a flu shot nearby?   More »

Target Advertises To Overhead Planes, Orbiting Satellites, Alien Life Forms

—>Joshua sent us this link to the Google Maps aerial view of a Target store in Alexandria, Va. There's something to be said for branding, advertising, and taking advantage of unused space, but maybe a giant bulls-eye isn't the logo to start with.  More »

Roughly locate a phone number on a GoogleMap using the area code and 3-digit prefix. Good for helping track down telemarketers. [RMLABS via Lifehacker]  More »

GoogleMaps Mashup Of Minneapolis Foreclosures

—>A googlemaps mashup of 2007 foreclosures to-date in Minneapolis area puts the acceleration in failed mortgages into a different perspective.  More »

Must Bookmark: Google IP Maps

—>You may have always heard how you can geographically pinpoint where an email came from using IP address but now GeoTool makes it possible for the layman.   More »

Track Nearly Any Package on Google Maps
Track your packages on Google Maps using this phat, free tracking tool, which handles UPS, FedEx, USPS, and Airborne/DHL.  More »