Source: Looking for Lincoln Back in July I posted a tutorial on how to create a Google map from a spreadsheet without messing with code. You can now create a map with tabbed map windows — still without messing with code. Click on the markers in this map of places President Abraham Lincoln lived and [...]

Google has a new toy in the lab: In Quotes. In Quotes finds and compares, uh, quotes from stories linked to from Google News. Want to know what presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain said about Iraq? Oil? The bailout? Design? Bananas? (They haven’t said anything about bananas. Yet.) Cycle through quotes, or hit [...]

One-way streets often complicate driving directions (especially in St. Louis). So using Google Maps to get walking directions is often not practical. Now when you search for directions, and the distance is 6 miles or less, you’ll see a link for “walking” directions. (Where available, there’s also a link for public transportation.) For example, drive [...]

You can make this map without knowing any code. Really. Here’s how: 1. CREATE A SPREADSHEET. Go to Google Docs and create a new spreadsheet, or import an existing spreadsheet. You can have a lot or just a little information in the spreadsheet, but you will must have at least three columns: A title for [...]

St. Louis has finally been added to the cities you can see via Google’s Street View. Co-worker Kurt Greenbaum says the most detailed areas are in downtown St. Louis and along Highway 40. Google added 36 other cities too: • Huntsville, Ala. • Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento and Stockton, Calif. • Boca Raton, Cape Coral, Fort [...]