The boffins over at Microsoft Research have taken the street-view idea within Google (and Bing, we suppose) Maps and developed a new perspective to street-level data.

Rather than being trapped within a bubble perspective, where you can only...

Yell.com is working on a new way for consumers to find businesses, above and beyond just looking at a boring directory of listings.

The company is hoping that the searchers of tomorrow will want to float above cities, swooping in on restaurants...

A coder called Bret Camper has built an 8-bit map of New York City and put it online for people to explore in a Google Maps-esque style. He says that it's an attempt to "make the city feel foreign yet familiar".

It's been created using a custom...

Google has announced that it's now offering historical imagery of European cities taken during World War II onto Google Earth, and that users can compare the pictures directly to images of those cities today.

A number of towns are covered,...

Nokia may have made a splash with free navigation application for a small handful of Symbian phones but this stuff's been around for ages. If you don't happen to own an N97 Mini, then here are five other free navigation apps for your mobile phone,...

The government has said that it will "explore ways" of making the Ordnance Survey's maps of the UK freely available on the web from April 2010. Gordon Brown announced the change at an event also attended by web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee who is now the...

A survey of 2000 internet users in the UK from GfK NOP has found that iTunes still remains by far the most popular music service, but that new entrant Spotify is shooting rapidly up the charts, despite having only just celebrated its 1st birthday.

The...

The Ordnance Survey is paid for by the tax payer - serveral times over as it goes. So, why is it that we foot a further fee to Great Britain's national mapping agency every time we buy a satnav or even an A-Z?

If you purchase a TomTom, approximately...

GPS software company CoPilot, which makes satnav applications for a whole range of handsets, has announced a "high definition" version of its latest mobile phone software - CoPilot Live 7.

CoPilot Live 7 HD Edition is designed to work with...

Microsoft has announced updates to its 3D Photosynth technology that will let businesses and Virtual Earth customers create detailed 3D views of "anything from places to products and from hotels to homes".

Apparently the first commercial...

The Highways Agency website has been improved in time for the Easter holiday getaway as a mobile service is debuted.

Handy for those stuck in traffic (although obviously not to be used by those behind the wheel), the new service has been...

As we'd reported would be the case last month, TomTom has announced two new versions of the TomTom ONE and TomTom XL that will launch in the UK mid-April.

The TomTom ONE IQ Routes and TomTom XL IQ Routes bring technologies, previously only...

TomTom has announced the availability of the TomTom HD Traffic widget, a personal online traffic application that users can install for free.

The widget will give users the latest real-time traffic information directly to their own personal...

What is it?
Standing for Global Positioning System, it is a radio based technology that measures the distance from a device with access to GPS onboard such as satellite navigation products (sat nav), then calculates that distance to the satellites...

ALK Technologies has announced that its CoPilot Live navigation software will be available for the Touch Cruise smartphone from HTC.

The fully integrated solution provides voice-guided navigation as well as navigation-based services such...