Results tagged “googlemaps”

Now you and your knowledge of swine flu infestation locations can be the envy of the office water cooler thanks to a Google Maps mash-up. "Pink markers are suspect. Purple markers are confirmed or probable. Deaths lack a dot in marker. Yellow markers are negative." The thunderstorms have slowed down your work day enough so that you can click F5 every 10 seconds to watch the dots appear in the map markers. Please keep us posted as anything develops. Thanks to Lifehacker for the tip.

Yesterday was the second of the Super Tuesdays for this Presidential Election year and included primary elections in Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont. Houstonist could careless about who wins. We're just excited to see the record turnout at the polls. We all win when that happens. Congratulations, Houston, and all you Texans that don't live in our kickass town.

After an extraordinarily embarrassing event wherein Houstonist unwittingly drove the wrong way down a portion of South Braeswood Boulevard, we decided to thoroughly investigate the nature, goals, and idiosyncrasies of the Braeswood Boulevards. Our results have been quite astonishing and maddening, as these braided hydra-like streets weave, change course, change names, and sometimes suddenly disappear for a portion of their overall path as though it were not no thang at all. Our ultimate aim...

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti...

Google recently announced two exciting new features. One is street view, a new feature of Google Maps, which allows you to see street-side views of locations in many major cities. Right now, the feature is available only in San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver, and there are plenty of interesting things to be seen, aside from the feature being helpful if you're traveling to a new location. Google has also started incorporating...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor The Gallery who says, "I like this shot...." and we say, "So do we!" It's a statue of Diana The Huntress located in the MFAH's Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, tucked away off of Memorial at Westcott. A great aerial photo of the collection can be found here on Google Maps. According to found information on the web Diana The Huntress,...

It's Friday, another grueling week of piloting your cube has ended. You and the rest of the water cooler kids are counting the minutes until your boss heads to the club house for her early afternoon sales meeting/golf-a-thon. Then, happy hour is officially in effect. The trouble is that the tribe can't break the habit of going to the same old watering hole since no one can remember life before Schlitz night at Bob's Country...

A marriage of Craigslist, the popular -- and free -- billboard service, and Google Maps technologies has yielded a nifty little Web tool called HousingMaps. When you pull up the Web site, you can click on Houston, or a number of cities (including London), to see the Craigslist rental listings mapped out for you. Just hover your mouse over a marker in a location you like to get more info, or click on the...