San Diego – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:50:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg San Diego – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Google and Apple Updates https://www.maproomblog.com/2021/02/google-and-apple-updates/ Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:50:13 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1790207 More]]> Google explains how they identify and take action against fraudulent content—fake reviews, fake listings, content vandalism—on Google Maps.

Meanwhile, the ability to pay for parking and transit fares is being integrated into the Google Maps app (Engadget, The Verge).

On the Apple Maps front, cycling directions have come to Portland, Oregon and San Diego, and turn-by-turn navigation has been expanded in the United Arab Emirates.

]]> 1790207 MacDonald Gill Exhibition in San Diego https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/08/macdonald-gill-exhibition-in-san-diego/ Sat, 06 Aug 2016 01:29:47 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=2549 More]]> gill-wonderland

Art Meet Maps: The World of MacDonald Gill is an exhibition of nine of MacDonald Gill’s pictorial maps at the Map and Atlas Museum of La Jolla in La Jolla, San Diego, California. The exhibition also includes pictorial map art by Dolodes d’Ambly, Lucien Boucher, Jo Mora and Ruth Taylor White. Admission is free, but the museum is only open on Wednesdays and Thursdays, as well as the first and third Saturdays of each month. It runs until 20 May 2017. Coverage from the La Jolla Light. [WMS]

Previously: MacDonald Gill’s Wonderground Map.

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