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Keep a watchful eye on the results of tonight's primary results with a Google Map mashup directly from the folks at Google. The map displays the results of already held primaries and will help you stay up-to-date with tonight's primaries (which, given the close race, are very important).
Google Maps Primaries [via Mashable]

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The life-long battle between Yahoo! and Google is being fought at every level possible, starting with the search engine, advertising platform, email services, and going to the maps they both offer to their users. At the moment, as with most of the other options and services, Google is the Maps leader, but unlike in other domains where it chooses to present old features as new, the Sunnyvale-based company is actually doing a good job when enhancing the browsing through Yahoo! Maps experience.

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A Google team entered the Fort Sam Houston army base in Texas and mapped everything, but the Mountain View-based company spokesman, Larry Yu, said that it was only a mistake. Naturally, the army had to take measures towards this possible security threat in the future, so it banned Google map-makers from filming and conducting detailed studies of bases. I say naturally because the three-dimensional panoramas of the Texan base have found their way on the Internet, and are available for any terrori... read more »

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Google allowed its users to edit the maps before, by moving markers of their homes and businesses, but nothing of this magnitude has ever impacted the online community like the latest option added. ItÂ’s heavenly manna for those in the need for pinpoint accuracy and, to be honest, a big help to the engineers that constantly had to manually operate the adjustments as they happened.

ItÂ’s final, Google Maps is open for heavy user editing. Because, as the Google Lat Long Blog writes, nobody knows ... read more »

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Correction: Originally this post said the spreadsheet mapped search term hits by country, but it actually maps how much search terms are related to a given country. Apologies for the mistake!
Google expert Philipp Lenssen has come up with a brilliant spreadsheet that creates a world map colored by how often a term gets Googled by country closely a search term is related to a particular country. Data nerds will love this: The sheet dynamically pulls in the number of results for a given search term and updates a map widget with colors representing the totals. After the jump, check out what the map looks like for a search for "lifehacker."


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Tomtom Maps now take you to your destination in 18 countries! Navigate to any address within a country using detailed regional maps, or use the larger maps to navigate across borders to any town or major road using the major road network. read more »

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Google Maps Images Downloader is a cute tool that can automatically download Google Maps satellite tile images and then combine them into one big image. It has two main functions. Downloads Google Maps satellite images; Combines downloaded Google Maps satellite images into a big image. read more »

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Tomtom Maps now take you to your destination in 18 countries! Navigate to any address within a country using detailed regional maps, or use the larger maps to navigate across borders to any town or major road using the major road network. read more »

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