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Google Maps Navigation (Beta) hits Australia

Published on November 17, 2010 By Craig Harvey

Woohoo, finally your shiny Android powered device can be used as a GPS Navigation aid in Australia. As of this morning (17th November 2010), Google have turned on this feature that was previously enabled for the USA and UK. Now when you are using Google Maps and try to get directions, you get a choice [...]

Updates to the Google Maps Geocoding Web Service

Published on March 10, 2010 By Craig Harvey

Google have released a new version of their geocoding web service, details here. Geocoding is the process of translating an address to an approximate location in terms of latitude and longitude (approximate is misleading, it can be very accurate). Reverse geocoding is the process of taking latitude and longitude coordinates and translating that to an [...]

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