“Thus the most important value of [volunteered geographic information] may lie in what it can tell about local activities in various geographic locations that go unnoticed by the world’s media, and about life at a local level.”

Considerably more detail about Google Mobile Maps new functionality to locate mobile devices via GPSes or via nearby cell towers, including a list of supported devices and speculation about this feature’s inclusion in the Android platform.

Plot your GPS tracklog in real time with this Google Maps hack

“KML, or Keyhole Markup Language, is an XML grammar and file format for modeling and storing geographic features such as points, lines, images and polygons for display in the Google Earth Client.”

2-layered maps with street view + satellite view

hack that uses Google’s API to help record distances traveled during a running or walking workout