Gear up for your own great American road trip

Break out the maps, load up the kids and camping gear and make the most of summer’s waning days — and with these 10 products, you'll enjoy the journey and your stay.

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Lawmaker: Michigan map isn't complete without U.P.

There's more to Michigan than the mitten.

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Report: Upgrading FEMA flood maps would save lives

Nearly four years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, researchers called on the federal government to upgrade its flood maps, arguing that the effort could save lives as well as stem losses to properties and businesses.

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This Halloween, explore your fantasies

The midnight moon of All Hallows Eve is upon us, which means an eye-popping pageant of wanton witches, naughty nurses, seductive superheroes and racy wraiths. (And this year, Halloween also happens to provide us with the perfect date night by falling on a Friday.) 

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Bikers, pedestrians seeking better Web maps

With the old gas-guzzler in the garage, you've got your bicycle ready and your sneakers laced up. Now all you need is a map of the quickest, safest routes for riding around town. Well, not so fast.

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Spain Gets Back Stolen 15th Century Map

A stolen 15th century map dating to the dawn of modern printing, a decade before Christopher Columbus sailed to America, was returned to Spain on Monday.

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Google Rolls Out Mobile Phone Locator

Internet search leader Google Inc. is testing technology that will find the location of people using its mobile mapping service, even if the phone making the connection isn't equipped with a GPS receiver.

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Google Inc. to Unite Mapping Mashups

Hoping to make it even easier to turn its online maps into collages of local information, Google Inc. is introducing tools that will stitch together applications from a hodgepodge of Web sites.

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Yahoo Upgrades Online Mapping Service

Yahoo Inc.'s online mapping service in the United States will begin giving driving directions in 34 European countries Wednesday as part of an upgrade aimed at luring traffic away from rivals AOL and Google Inc.

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Online Maps Updated After Disaster

If you went to Google, Yahoo, AOL or another mapping site to plot a route from San Francisco to Oakland in the hours after an oil tanker exploded, they would have sent you driving over a collapsed overpass engulfed in flames.

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Congress Questions Google's Katrina Maps

A congressional subcommittee accused Google on Friday of "airbrushing history" by replacing post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its popular map portal with images of the region taken before the storm's devastation.

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Microsoft Maps Next Step in Google Chase

Microsoft Corp. has upgraded its online mapping service to include three-dimensional tours of 15 U.S. cities, marking another step in its dogged pursuit of Internet search leader Google Inc.

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Antique Map Thief Gets 3 1/2-Year Jail Term

A renowned antique map dealer who admitted stealing nearly 100 rare maps was sentenced Wednesday to 3 1/2 years in prison, after one librarian described him as a "thief who assaulted history."

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Google Upgrades Mapping Tools

Google Inc. on Monday released the latest upgrades to the mapping tools that rank among the company's biggest success outside the Internet-leading search engine that steers much of the Web's traffic.

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Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010, the Government has announced.

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Bill Gurley analyzes the week's news about Google's free turn-by-turn map application on Android phones. Back-story as well as what happened to the stock of the two mapping titans on Thursday. Major disruption from Google. Again.

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A California county's three-year battle to prevent a nonprofit group from obtaining public mapping data has ended disastrously for the county after it was ordered by a court to pay the group $500,000 in legal costs.

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The Census Bureau reports that 17 percent of the U.S. population under age 65 was without health insurance last year. Texas had the highest rate at 26.5 percent, and Florida was second at 24.8 percent.

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AN artist proves he's a cut above - with a map of America made from meat.

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Many people have a lot of information just sitting there on Google's servers including personal appointments (Calendar), correspondence (Gmail), work and personal documents (Google Docs) and online reading habits (Google Reader).

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Wow now we can peruse the Moon's deepest crevices - What next Mars?

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Must-read and must-know.

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Moving around in Google Street View is not always intuitive. You always end up clicking aimlessly a few times before you can really figure out how to move about.

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The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked "highly confidential," that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation's civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel fo …

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North Korea has a reputation as one of the most secretive, authoritarian, repressive countries in the world. But that doesn't stop Curtis Melvin, a PhD student at George Mason University, from trying to shine some light into the country's dark corners.

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Despite the quip about American beer being like making love in a canoe, the US produces a multitude and a variety of brews that belie the homogenised tastes of the most popular brands.

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Public transport users in Perth and Adelaide can already plot their trips with Google Maps, and soon Canberra and a minute part of Sydney will be able to join in the journey-planning goodness.

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Back That Thing Up Where?!

For a commercial driver, there can be nothing worse than a bad set of directions. Okay, I take that back. Give a commercial driver that drives at night a bad set of directions.

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Google pulls out some old maps, inadvertently revealing some of Japan's 'dirty linen' and catches flak for it.

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British airline BMI has apologised after in-flight maps on its London-Tel Aviv service did not identify Israel. The moving maps marked Islamic holy sites but showed only the city of Haifa in Israel, identified by its Arabic name, Khefa.

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A Melbourne man has completed a six-month-long quest to turn topography into typography. Rhett Dashwood has just published a Google Maps alphabet featuring all 26 letters which he found in man-made or naturally-occurring formations...

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The latest layer to be turned on in Google Maps is one for webcams. Just click on the "More" button on the top right of each map right next to the "Traffic" button.

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Beauty and knowledge on one site

Beautiful and informative, Bible History Online is a rare find. It's a learning tool, a library, a picture archive and a superdirectory, all at one address. It would be impossible to cover everything on this site in a rew paragraphs, so here's a quick rundown:

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map of US, when you rollover a dot the local newspaper pops up... and if you click again it shows you the cover, and if you click again it goes to the newspaper's website.

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Thor Hanson and collaborators from Conservation International

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The map, created by the National Institute for Environmental Studies, is designed to help doctors treat patients with respiratory ailments and assist local governments in working out pollution countermeasures.

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Here are Maps where you can track the pork projects that the House of Representatives passed in the Omnibus bill last week. One map is for pork in the Commerce, Justice and State part of the Bill the other map covers Energy and Water bill earmarks.

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As the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act begins to effect, communities across the country are beginning to evaluate the impact on their local economies, and how best to quickly and efficiently put people to work.

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The cellphone is the world's most ubiquitous computer. The four billion cellphones in use around the globe carry personal information, provide access to the Web and are being used more and more to navigate the real world.

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