Published on: 2025-04-26 02:26:49
If you’ve ever wanted to explore the world of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings,” the best place to start might be Oshkosh. That’s where a Wisconsin cartographer created dozens of maps that went into “The Atlas of Middle-earth,” the official geographic guide to the world of author J.R.R. Tolkien. Her work went on to influence “The Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy. Cartographer Karen Wynn Fonstad was featured in this Jan. 30, 1992 issue of The Oshkosh Northwestern. Photo courtesy Mark Fon
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 08:03:00
In context: Apple has always kept its Maps app locked away in its walled garden. The company recently started expanding access to it. Last year, it launched a beta version of Apple Maps for web browsers – though it was a work in progress. Initially, users could only access the Maps web app from desktops or tablets. Now, Apple has quietly dropped the beta tag from the URL and opened the service to other mobile devices, including its rival – Android. Whether Android users will want to use Apple
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 07:00:03
Apple released iOS 18.4 on March 31, and that update brought your iPhone new emoji and a new recipes section in Apple News. But when Apple released iOS 18 in September, that update made some improvements in its Maps app, which now lets you plan a walking, running or hiking route. Creating a custom route is great for planning a hike or other outdoor activities, and it can keep you on track so you don't get lost. This feature can also tell you how far a custom route is, as well as what your eleva
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 11:08:09
Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Apple Maps started offering a public web interface in beta testing last year. That web version of Maps is now compatible with Chrome on your Android phone. Apple Maps in Chrome still lacks some important desktop features, however. For years now, Apple and Google have been developing software and services for their users that fill the same niches. We’ve got Safari and Chrome, Apple Pay and Google Wallet, and countless others. Sometimes those efforts end u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 12:42:27
Apple last year introduced a beta version of Apple Maps on the web, which allowed users of other platforms to access the company’s mapping service for the first time. However, Apple Maps on the web was labeled as “beta” — until now. And as the platform is no longer beta, it has also gained support for mobile devices. Apple Maps web app now available for mobile devices With the change, Apple Maps on the web is now available at maps.apple.com, instead of beta.apple.maps.com. But the biggest surp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 19:19:13
🗺️ MapStruct: Create and Customize Interactive Maps ✨ Easily insert background maps, create multiple pages, place markers, and add links. MapStruct is a modern, interactive tool designed for creating custom maps. With MapStruct, you can upload your own background images to serve as maps, organize different views across multiple pages, and place interactive markers. Enhance your maps by adding links to markers so that users can access additional information or navigate to other pages. The intuit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 06:41:33
My favorite moments with Apple Maps are when I’m not going anywhere physically, but rather browsing the app and saving new places to visit. And an iOS 18 upgrade has made that experience better than ever. Browsing is my favorite pastime in Apple Maps Apple Maps serves two primary needs for users: getting you from point A to B and helping you discover places to go That first purpose, of course, needs to be done well. Errors in location data are what got Apple Maps into big trouble upon its d
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 05:05:55
What maps did you use to canoe the Danube? For the Danube we used the BIKELINE maps for the DANUBE CYCLE PATH (donauradweg) which come in a range of languages and can be ordered online. These maps cover the entire river and are a fantastic scale providing great detail. The maps also act as a concise guide book giving tid-bits of historic information along route. You need nothing more than these maps with the exception of the final 300kms of the Danube where the cycle path leaves the river in Ro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 03:40:02
Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps is updating its trip details screen when setting up navigation. The new look fits in more information, even as some details get smaller. One new addition shows your estimated time of arrival, if you’re to leave immediately. Google Maps packs an incredible amount of information onto our phones’ screens — and that’s true even when we’re not looking at the map itself. From layer options to trip settings, Google does a really solid job at makin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 19:00:11
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority What’s old is new again with Google, always. As part of the March Feature Drop for Android phones, Google announced that it was bringing people finding to its existing Find My Device app. Since I’d been using Google Maps location sharing for years, I wondered if this would be a duplicate feature, the same thing, or different/better. So I waited for people finding to pop up in the Find My Device app on my phone and started testing. The positive? It works, and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 23:54:17
Google on Friday released a major update for Google Maps users on iOS, at least for those in the European Union. With the latest version of the app, iPhone users can now set Google Maps as their default navigation app, completely replacing Apple Maps. You can now set Google Maps as your default navigation app – but only in the EU As noted by Macerkopf, Google Maps now appears as an option in the default navigation app settings on iOS. This means that Google Maps can be the iPhone’s default app
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 23:04:38
After a long and gloomy winter, many people are looking forward to some summer travel. Google has some new tools to help you plan, but like most of what Google does now, the new features lean heavily on AI. And unusually, the most interesting of these additions is launching first on iOS. Google says that lots of people tend to take screenshots when they're planning a trip. Instead of letting those images become lost in your camera roll, Google will let you feed them into Maps. The new screensho
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 07:02:24
It might be around that time of year when you’re starting to figure out your summer vacation plans. Google has revealed some new features that can help with that, including a handy AI-powered one for Maps. If you turn on the new screenshot list, Gemini can automatically recognize locations that are mentioned in screenshots you take in the app. You can then save the places you're interested in to a list. These saved spots will appear on the map, and you can share the list with your travel compan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 23:00:36
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps is adding a new tool that lets you prepare lists of destinations extracted from screenshots. Maps will analyze screenshots shared to its library, and can handle multiple locations on a single screen. The feature is first coming to iOS this week, with Android support following soon. Taking a screenshot is one of the most very basic things a smartphone can do, and while we’ve had the ability to do that for the better part of forever, recent
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 23:00:00
Google is introducing new features to Maps, Search, and Hotels that aim to help users plan upcoming travel and vacations. The Google Maps app is getting a standout feature that can identify locations in your screenshots and save them to a list, making it easier for users to plan their trips before screenshots of travel ideas get lost within their camera roll. Once the new screenshot list is enabled in Maps, the Gemini-powered feature will detect places that are mentioned in text within screensh
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 23:00:00
Google is rolling out a slew of new features — some powered by AI — across Search, Maps, and Gemini that are designed to help people plan their summer vacations. The new features arrive as users have been turning to tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT for help with planning trips. Google Search’s AI Overviews, which display a snapshot of information at the top of the results page, can now help users get trip ideas for certain regions or countries. Starting this week, users can search for something like
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 02:54:00
ZDNET The next time you're using Google Maps to research a business, you might be able to ask Gemini to help you find information. Also: Google Maps yanks over 10,000 fake business listings - how to spot the scam Although Google hasn't announced anything, a new feature is showing in Maps -- an "Ask about place" card that ties into Gemini. How 'Ask about place' works While you have Maps open, tap on a business listing. Once you have that listing pulled up, open Gemini as you normally would (
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 22:18:36
Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding an “Ask about place” contextual chip for Gemini. The chip has started appearing when Gemini is called up from Google Maps, but only for certain place types. Functionality is currently a bit shaky, with Gemini sometimes refusing to access Maps URLs With Gemini, Google has a large language model on its hands that’s capable of some very impressive feats, but those are only going to convince people of its value if they get to experience
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 01:32:31
ZDNET Those of you who use the Google Maps Timeline to keep track of past trips and directions may notice that your data has mysteriously vanished. Well, not so mysteriously. The fault lies with Google, and you're apparently out of luck unless you have a backup. "We briefly experienced a technical issue that caused the deletion of Timeline data for some people," Google revealed in a statement shared with ZDNET. "Nearly everyone with encrypted Timeline backups will be able to restore their data
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 06:56:13
The Google Maps Timeline has long been a useful though slightly uncomfortable feature that maintains a complete record of everywhere your phone goes (and probably you with it). Google recently changed the way it stored timeline data to improve privacy, but the company now confirms that a "technical issue" resulted in many users losing their timeline history altogether, and there might not be any way to recover it. Timeline, previously known as Location History, is very useful if you need to fig
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 14:04:05
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google admitted it had a Maps timeline-erasing bug, but there’s a way to get it back. These are the steps you should follow to restore your deleted timeline (with one major caveat). And there are measures you can take to always make sure your timeline is backed up. Earlier this month, Google made one extra blunder on top of an already-annoying situation with Maps timeline. After hindering timelines (for privacy reasons, I should add) by tying them to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 02:27:58
A strange Apple Maps bug is showing point-of-interest pins for a smattering of airport baggage claim stations across the United States, while the map is zoomed far way enough that otherwise almost no landmarks, let alone airports, are marked. The random baggage claim pins appear across Apple Maps on iPhone, iPad and Mac. This is obviously a glitch with the data being served by the Apple Maps backend, and should be fixable by Apple with a server update. The bug was first spotted by Apple Maps u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 02:01:27
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Google Maps users have recently been complaining on places like Reddit that their Timeline data — the app’s historical record of where they’ve been — had disappeared. Now, Google has confirmed that it accidentally deleted the data and that anyone who wasn’t using Google’s cloud backups is out of luck. Google spokesperson Genevieve Park provided this state
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 14:49:31
Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google Maps TL;DR Over 10,000 fraudulent listings were uncovered and removed from Google Maps. These scams ranged from fake businesses to legitimate accounts that were hacked. Google says the people behind the scam were working within a wider network. Google Maps is great for finding your way around town. In addition to helping you get from point A to point B, you can also use it as a way to discover new places to shop, eat, and so on. While you can usually tr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 14:50:00
ZDNET As a Google Maps user, I tend to assume that the listings I find in a search are real and legitimate. But that assumption could get me in trouble. Google recently discovered more than 10,000 phony listings in Google Maps, CBS News reported on Wednesday. The listings ran the gamut from blatantly fake businesses to legitimate accounts that had been hacked or hijacked by cybercriminals. In response, Google removed the listings and has filed a lawsuit against the alleged scammers behind them
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 14:16:29
Google is suing a network of scammers who manipulated Google Maps by faking or hijacking about 10,000 business listings to con people out of money. The main defendant named in the lawsuit is a Maryland man who allegedly played a central role in the scheme by helping coordinate teams of scammers around the world to carry it out. The lawsuit, first reported by CBS News, states the man for two years "abused Google services to create fake online listings for businesses that do not exist and to bols
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 18:32:57
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Google is taking down 10,000 fake business listings from Google Maps and suing a network of scammers who set them up, CBS News reports. The company’s lawsuit alleges that a man connected to a broader scam network created fake business profiles on Google Maps and sold them for profit. Google was tipped off by a Texas-based locksmith who said so
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 17:30:56
Geometry VAE The key to generating high-quality 3D scenes with a latent diffusion model is our Geometry VAE, capable of compressing pointmaps with high accuracy. We find empirically that our VAE with a transformer decoder is more appropriate for autoencoding pointmaps than a VAE with a convolutional decoder or a VAE pre-trained for autoencoding images. Below we visualize colored point clouds using (1) Pointmaps from data, (2) Pointmaps autoencoded with our VAE, (3) Pointmaps autoencoded with a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 06:43:27
Apple Maps is great for navigation, but I especially love using the app to browse new areas, find a great coffee shop, and plan outings and adventures. For those use cases, iOS 18 brought a key change to search in Apple Maps that somehow has been missing for years: you can now search the specific area you’re viewing on the map. And that’s been a huge answered wish for me. My longstanding Apple Maps problem Here’s a key thread from Apple’s support community back in 2020: I know I am going to b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 10:09:45
Apple quietly launched a new app on Friday called “Maps Surveyor,” which lets users contribute to Apple Maps by collecting data about their surroundings and sending it to the company. However, not everyone can use the new app. Here’s what’s behind the Apple Maps Surveyor app “Surveyor helps Apple improve Maps by collecting data, such as images of street signs and other roadside details, while on an assigned route,” the app description reads. Despite being available for free on the App Store, i
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