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Most of the time, when you're looking for directions or want to find a location, you probably go directly to Google Maps (or whatever your favorite mapping tool is) and look up the address. Well, that's fine when you have the address, or you know the names of the city, town or location that you want to find. However, there are plenty of cases when names of places aren't so important as their location on the Earth.
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As an avid gamer, I’m surprised by the correlation between GPS-like features in modern video games and the proliferation of GPS technology in mundane life. When I was a kid, paper maps and cartography were still common; if you got lost, you suffered through it and found your way to your destination. Nowadays, we’ve got the wonders of GPS to guide us there and back again. What is GPS? How does it work?
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TripWhat is a Web and iPhone app made by the same people behind the excellent Sortable, the money-saving Geekaphone, and the effective CPUBoss. After helping us choose everything from smartphones, tablets and cameras, to CPUs and cars, it's time to find the best things to do, eat, and see in almost every city in North America.
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Twitter has introduced its Trends feature to more than 160 new locations, including countries that have never had the feature before. In addition to a new wave of countries, more than 130 cities that reside within countries that already had access to Trends can now also display specific local trends for that urban area.
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Out of all the navigation apps that are currently on the market, Waze may very well have the best concept. The only catch is that it doesn't have a "big name" backing it (like Google or Apple Maps). Regardless, it's on our list of Best Apps For The iPhone, and there's a reason for that. The app blends elements from both crowdsourcing and mapping to create something truly useful.
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If you like learning about things around you then Google’s Field Trip could be worth an install on your iPhone. Google’s augmented reality app follows up the Android launch last year and comes to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Field Trip is an information assistant that takes the ideas of local discovery and enhances it with augmented reality. It runs in the background till you are near something interesting.
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UK-based social networking experiment Spraffl launched for the iPhone on Wednesday. Unlike its predecessors, the iOS app focuses on the total anonymity of its users with a disregard for features like real name policy, friending, and check-ins. Instead, experiment participants share “hyper-local” information in the form of status updates and comments.
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Whether you've lived in the same city for 10 years or visiting as a tourist for a few days, one of the greatest ways to discover everything a city has to offer is by going on photowalks. While you can easily find the most popular tourist spots, or stumble across photography treasure troves simply by heading off the beaten path, there's an app that can make the discovery a little easier. Free iOS app Pashadelic makes it possible to look up photos that are nearby, or in any city of your choice.
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See a picture of the community around you, right on your Mac desktop. Satellite Eyes is a tiny Mac download that sits in your tray, determines your current location and puts a map of your choosing on the desktop. Whether you want a minimalist outline, a satellite image or even a watercolor, it doesn't matter - Satellite Eyes can deliver, and will automatically move every time you do.
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Create beautiful maps of your favorite places, then download high-resolution copies of them. Whether you want a water colour outline of the city you recently visited or a detailed grid of your hometown, CityTracking.org's Map To Image is a simple web-app allowing you to turn your favorite places into art. Sure, you could compile screenshots from Bing or Google Maps to make your own images, but Map to Image makes the process simple.
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One of the worst issues I have with my friends is when we are driving in the car, our stomachs start rumbling, and we simply don't know where to eat. There's often tennis-like banter between us filled with statements like "You pick!" and "No, you pick!" It never ends. Miles will typically pass until we run out of gas, and at that point, we don't even know which tow-truck to call. These are typically the saddest days of my life.
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If you install an app on your smartphone these days, the chances are that it will ask to see your location, as well as other personal identifying data – and saying no to it will likely disable most, if not all of its appealing features. One classic example of this is the newly remade Google [...]
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Here's an honest statement - I've never owned a smartphone until nearly a month ago. Yep, I write for a tech blog about amazing techy websites, and yet I never owned one until then. Part of it was financial reasons (MUO pays us an extravagant salary – I just waste it on frivolous items such as gold toilet seats and dyed poodles), and part of it was a bit of a reluctance (if I have a laptop, why get a phone?). However, in the end, I broke down and got the iPhone 5.
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It’s called ‘HERE’, and it could be the next big thing in the mapping firmament. Just to prove that you can still count on Nokia as a big game player, the Finish mobile giant has launched Nokia HERE, a mapping technology for multiple platforms. Nokia HERE will be made available as a free service.
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If you're on Facebook a bit, you've probably noticed people adding a location to their posts and photos, tagging their friends in locations and generally making it clear that they're out and about having a great time. Maybe you have had a go at this yourself or perhaps you've never managed to get around to it. What is clear about Facebook location tagging though, is that it's easy and it's good fun. Here's how you can get started with Facebook Places.
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