Maps

Navigation, power and communications systems that rely on GPS satellite navigation will be disrupted by violent solar activity in 2011, research shows.

The Goggles homepage contains a Flash-based flight simulator based on Google maps. Players can pick from four starting locations.

In 2011, the total population of GPS-enabled location-based services (LBS) subscribers will reach 315 million, up from 12 million in 2006, according to a new study from ABI Research.

Overview of Google's Tour de France plug-in. Left side has links to the prominent stages and sights.

Using GPS (global positioning system) data to measure how points on land move following an undersea earthquake could help geologists decide if the tremor will cause an ocean-wide tsunami.

Google Earth sports a an improved interface that will take first generation Earth users take some time to get used to - but is significantly more intuitive than previous software versions.