If you don’t already have Google Maps on your mobile phone, here’s another great reason to do so. Now you can get public transit schedules directly on the map itself. Need to find the closest metro stop? No problem. Mobile Google Maps now supports this information for over 50 cities world wide. Check out the video for more details.

The new version of Google Maps for mobile is available to download to your phone at http://www.google.com/gmm from your phone's web browser.

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The folks at USC’s Interactive Media Division have got a cool project underway. Viewfinder. Their stated objective is "to provide a straightforward procedure for geo-locating photos of any kind" and specify that "a 10-year-old should be able to find the pose of a photo in less than a minute". If that still sounds like a bit like technical gobbley-goop, here is the idea: You take a picture of someone in front of a landmark. Now you want to superimpose that photo into a 3D world so that the image is perfectly aligned to the model.

Did that help? No??? OK, then watch their video (below) and you will get the idea immediately.

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