Freeze frame shots

KeeKim and I went to take some freeze frame photos this afternoon in San Francisco, they've come out pretty well:


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Google Street View arrives in the UK

The UK Street View has launched! Here's a nice view of my flat:


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Official post on Google Lat Long blog

London through a new lens

Some photos from my new 50mm prime and 0.45x wide angle lenses:


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New markers for Transit directions on Google Maps

We've just updated the markers that we use on the map on Google Transit directions. They have an upgraded graphical style to fit in with our new UI, and also have the added benefit of rendering the route name in the localized colour scheme into the marker itself, giving an at-a-glance summary of the route simply from looking at the map.

Earth to Earth on the front page of YouTube

On Friday, our film Earth To Earth was selected as one of the featured videos on the front page of YouTube.com! We got over 116,000 views within a single day. Not bad publicity :)



Official post on YouTube blog

Going beyond the top 10 results on Google Maps

It's been a while in the making, but I'm happy to say that we've just launched an update to Google Maps so that you can now see all search results on the map! I always suspected that there were more than 10 restaurants in London...


Official post on Google LatLong blog

February snow in London

Photos from the day the country stopped working:


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Australia

Photos from New Years and January in Sydney:


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Public transit layer on Google Maps

I'm happy to say that last week we launched the Transit layer on Google Maps, just over a year after coming up with the first designs. It gives you an overlay of the metro systems for over 60 cities worldwide, and clicking on any one of the stations highlights the lines that run through it.

It's really useful for places where we don't yet have transit directions coverage. It's also very interesting to see the networks laid out in their real physical dimensions instead of the standard Beck-style layout that we're used to seeing...


Official post on Google LatLong blog

New Google Transit homepage

We've just launched another new design iteration for the Google Transit homepage. This version uses a heatmap to visualize the coverage we have, which continues to rapidly expand.


Official post on Google LatLong blog