maps

Samsung or iPhone? A screenshot worth a thousand tweets

Posted 18 Oct 2011 by Laura Scott

screenshots of maps apps on Samsung and iPhone

(Okay, maybe not a thousand. But a lot!)

So last night, I saw that John Gruber had favorited one of my Flickr photos from 2008: a screenshot of the Google Maps app on the iPhone. Hmm, what was that about?

It turns out quite a bit. I found Gruber's Daring Fireball post pointing out what appears to be Samsung's alteration and reuse of a screenshot image I created in 2008. You see, three years ago I blogged about iPhone apps I thought were a big deal — "game changers." (The post was cross-posted on BlogHer, where it got noticed.) Scroll down to see my excitement then about the ever-useful maps.app, with screenshot in question.

Google Earth takes you there, back when

Posted 14 Nov 2006 by Laura Scott

Now this is fun: Google Earth now offers historical map overlays! I just love this. For example, here is a (much compressed) image of the Lewis and Clark map laid right over the Google Earth interface. (Looks like those boys just missed Boulder. Too bad for them.)

Rick Broida on Lifehacker says: