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- Google Maps concept 16 episodes
- Safer Routes Home? … I wish Google Maps had a "I'm walking home by myself at night" mode that would show you a way with well lit paths and open spaces …
- Five Short Things, including Google Vibe … Google announced this thing, Immersive View , for Google Maps, which is basically "what if maps and 3d engines and data, but not too much yet". It combines things …
- Tireless five year olds … resolution of 200 images/square mile, scoring ∼1 million images from Google Streetview”. High resolution maps from a training set of 3,000 images. From New York and …
- Infrastructure, The LCARS App Store … It's not necessarily about Google being able to map the inside of your house and retaining that data (that feels to me the absolute bottom layer), but …
- Things that I wish existed; HIG but not Hygge; Stages of Digital Transformation, Again; Good Enough Digital Transformation … There’s a fantastic table, which maps approximate ages against virtues, a key psychosocial crisis, and a key existential question. Here's a recreation of a few: At …
- It Looks Like You're Trying To Write A Newsletter … so (ad agency voice) what if we turned on that front camera while you were using Google Maps or Apple Maps or whatever? What would we see? Would …
- Uncanny Valley; Network Du Jour; Streaking Considered Harmful … So what stack me from some problems and the last ten year old Google and I think I might be clear to more so you can't just …
- Building Together; Beautiful Shooty Things; Software For Eating; The New Toys On The Web; Take It Seriously; And Finally … He's confident enough to just map out the process and go to a contractor and get what he needs built. I'm going to go out on …
- Dunbar’s Goose and the Pump Handle … Now, I have no idea how Google are going about this internally. I have no idea if there are people like Google’s former Chief Ethicist [sic] raising …
- Three Things … One of the better known examples of a tech moat is Justin O’Beirnes piece from 2017, Google Maps’s Moat , comparing how far Google Maps was ahead …
- Health; Smart Cars; Odds … kind of minimum viable mapping, but what you'd at least like would be some sort of "hey, we linked this with your Google/Foursquare/Swarm/whatever account …
- Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political … With hindsight though, the data behind Earth, the satellite imagery, ended up being used in the nascent Google Maps service that debuted in 2005, itself an acquisition and …
- It's (not) the economy stupid; gaining convenience at the expense of agency … I use Apple Maps because it’s honestly good-enough and cleaner than Google Maps. But this September with the next release of iOS, Apple are going to …
- Cynical, me?; Snow Crashing Ch 13, part 3 … seatback display has probably seen the stereotypical world map with light/dark overlaid upon it. Just like our Google Earth and other zoomable user interfaces, and in another …
- Up To Code; Science Fictional Network Security; Notes on Infrastructure; Response; 2014 (5) … Where can you build infrastructure where no-one's looking? No one was looking when Google bought up all that dark fiber - remember when Google bought all that …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … a blank look and a request for an address to be input into Google Maps. To be fair, this happens fairly often with any of the Uber levels …
- OVERNIGHT SUCCESS … he'd built Keyhole, turned it into Google Earth and then pretty much made Google the dominant force in consumer mapping when, well, there wasn't one unless …
- We can hallucinate it for your wholescale … So Matthias took an image, fed it into the model, and the representation of the image in the model was Very Big because the map to the representation …
- Recall; ATMs; … service hanging off a sirsi.net URL; c) one of the reasons why Google Maps is so horrendously bad is that when you search for "Vancouver Community Library …
- Aren't we all just so tired … these standard assessments at the base level can consist of screen-by-screen teardowns (or, better, friction maps -- thanks, Dave Guarino), that might show where in a process …
- Another Way; Bottom-Up; Oh, Is That The Time … so if that means that they construct ambient, pleasant displays that show the distribution of pay-per-minute car rental, public transport[1] or build maps that show …
- Words and how to use them to achieve and convey your intended effect and meaning? … people, here is a Twitter microfiction/thread of some magical technology realism about Google Maps by @grahamvsworld . My friend Leigh Dodds has a good thread on data stewardship …
- My Followers, Friends and Social Objects … And then, poof, ten years later, we have Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat and Google Plus and and and. Words mean things. Okay, that's a …
- The Location-based Pokemon Game Company … thus John Hanke, a Very Important Googler, responsible for — deep breath — Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Local, Streetview and more) would have until Hanke didn’t need to …
- New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18 … The whole thing is about using Google Sheets (a collaborative working environment! That allows multiple users to work together in real-time!) to do IA, design and content …