Google Latitude on Android RC33

Google Latitude, which was introduced earlier this week and is expected to be rolled out (at least in the US) on Android via the RC33 upgrade (this is not cupcake!) from February 5th to 15th, might be a game changer in mobile, geo-aware social networking.  Google describes Latitude as…
…a new feature of Google Maps for mobile, as [...]

YouTube + Google Maps / PHPTube 0.1.2

YouTube has added Google Maps-based geo-tagging of video-clips a few days ago. however, the geo-information is obviously not used anywhere on the site yet (it even doesn’t appear on the beta-version of the video-page, which is available to all users).

as a side-effect of this update, some commentators noticed that my video upload-API PHPTube has been [...]

Google My Maps

Google is further narrowing down the space for niche mapping-mashups like frappr and flagr (and to some extent even more complex apps based on the Maps API, like austrian newcomer Tupalo) by releasing their My Maps feature. My Maps lets anybody create geo-mashups without the need to code, including photo- & video-annotation. sharing of maps [...]

MapLib: customized Google Maps

MapLib is a very nice mashup allowing to view any uploaded bitmap through Google Maps’ AJAX user-interface. customized maps support markers and can be embedded on any website. interestingly, Manfred Wuits (yumyum) demonstrated a very similar technique a month ago at BarCamp Vienna (check the video-feed of his demo).

flickr adds geotagging

TechCrunch reports tonights addition of geotagging-features to flickr. using a slick AJAX-interface, photos can be drag&dropped on Yahoo! Maps for adding geo-information. using flickr’s photo-organizer, batches of photos are easily processed in a single step. users can browse their own and public photos by geographic data and generate maps displaying all their photos. geo-features were [...]

Google Maps Flight Sim

Google Maps Flight Sim is a flash-based mashup developed by Mark Caswell-Daniels. using the keyboard, players can navigate a small airplane flying over digital maps snatched directly from Google Maps. the nice-looking experience is completed by an onboard-cannon however, there is still room for improvement, as the faq suggests:
I have plans to add [...]