Map making has been around for as long as there have been explorers. For more accurate maps and the safety of explorers, a coordinate system was first proposed by the Greek astronomer, Hipparchus ...

This Wednesday, Google launched its much-anticipated location-tracking service, Latitude, which uses the GPS hardware found in smart phones (such as Google Android phones and BlackBerry and Windows ...

Think back to your childhood at the beach or playing in a sandbox and you likely wondered "What if I kept digging through the entire world, where would I end up?" I recall as a kid my dad telling me ...

Just in case you have ever wanted to know your friends' precise movements--every location, every right turn, every trip to Starbucks--Google has launched Latitude, a new feature for Google Maps that ...

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