Find Every Public Radio Station During Long Journeys With NPR Road Trip
Driving across America soon? Know what station carries public radio programs for every mile of your journey, thanks to NPR's Road Trip tool. You'll get turn-by-turn directions from Bing along with the name and frequency of all the NPR stations you'll be able to listen to every mile of your trip.
Discover Where You Can Walk To From Any Potential Home With WalkScore.com
Are you looking for a new place to live? Are you concerned about the cost of living? Consider this - you can save a lot of money simply by walking instead of driving to run errands or to get to work. From getting groceries to shopping for gadgets, walking is good for you and the absolute cheapest way to get around.
6 Chrome Extensions That Tell You A Lot More On Google Maps
With online maps it’s not only about directions anymore. Even Google Maps hasn’t been able to satisfy a lot of people. You can see them displaying their (free) wares on the Chrome Web Store and telling Google Maps engineers what the online mapping application is missing.
10 Unique Google Maps Mashups You Can Explore For Information
Do you know you can find anything on a map these days? Columbus might have disagreed, but aren’t maps made for that very purpose? Well, I was talking more along the lines of finding offbeat things like CIA secret prisons to free beer (ok nix that last one…it’s more in my imagination!). But thanks to the Google Maps API and innovative minds, we have a glut of mashups detailing everything on a map.
Marble - An Open Source Alternative To Google Earth [Linux]
If you haven't tried out Google Earth, you may be missing out. But it can sometimes be a resource hog. Additionally, Google Earth is made by, well, Google, which might lead some people to automatically boycott it. In any case, even though there is a Linux version, there's also a decent open source alternative that users can try as well.
6 Websites To Do Some Virtual Globetrotting With Google Street View
Google Street View is a feature both on Google Maps and Google Earth that brings you panoramic 360 degree views from many locations around the world. It started from the United States and now embraces all the continents (even Antarctica). Google Street View has also given rise to a motley of websites and apps – some fun, some really useful. Let’s check out six of them.
Access All Your Travel Guides & Maps Offline With Stay [iPhone]
Stay is a free fun web-based tool we have reviewed previously. Basically, it offers a great feature set for planning and mapping your traveling and then saving and sharing your plans with friends, relatives or random people. Just a few days ago, the site launched their official free app for the iPhone which makes downloading and accessing your travel guides much easier.
5 Ways To See Your Facebook Friends On A World Map
Facebook is now the world’s largest social network with more than 500 million users worldwide. Even if you have a fraction of that geographical spread in your friend list, it really helps to locate them visually on a map. It’s not just a fun visual fun tool but has some practical uses too.