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Open Maps for Europe runs until Dec. 31, 2022. EuroGeographics is an international not-for-profit organization and the membership association for the European National Mapping, Cadastral and Land ...
The rendering of America and Africa in Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map (Wikimedia Commons) In June 2012, Brian McClendon, an executive at Google, announced that Google Maps and Google Earth ...
Google has upgraded its Maps for Europe to include more details, such as streets and driving directions. "Just a day ago you'd see nothing but the country borders for e.g. Germany in the default ...
Google Maps announced they have expanded their own mapping service into ten more European countries, making up a total of 40 countries worldwide that have Google made maps.. The ten new countries ...
Because previous world maps depicted only Europe, Asia, and Africa, this discovery warranted a new map. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published one that included—and named ...
The Old Maps Online project is a Google Maps mashup that helps you find historical maps from libraries across the world. To find an old map, position the main map over the area you’re interested ...
Back in February, we compared maps of the Olympic sites in Sochi made by Google Maps and OpenStreetMap, the massively crowdsourced world map created by volunteers. OSM's maps easily swept the ...