Google Maps in Europe

By A Googler

Posted by Steven Crossan, Product Manager, Google Maps Europe

We're excited to announce that we have just launched beta versions of Google Maps for France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. These sites include the full suite of interactive street maps, driving directions, and integrated local business search. This has been a global effort with Google teams in Paris, Hamburg, Milan, Madrid, New York, Mountain View, Kirkland, Sydney, London, Dublin, and Zurich working together for much of the past year to build a truly "local" product.

Accompanying this release, we have greatly improved high resolution imagery coverage for Europe in both Google Maps and Google Earth. Check out the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Olympiastadion in Berlin, and the Grand Canal in Venice.

To give you a preview of what's to come, we've also rendered street maps for many other countries in Europe. Developers, you can incorporate these maps and imagery into your own websites using the free Google Maps API Version 2.

Frapper: Place photos of you and your friends on a Google Map

Frappr was created by Brian, Kun and James at Rising Concepts, who wanted to see where all their high school and college friends went after they graduated.Frappr (Friend Mapper) lets you see the zip code where your friends live or work, letting you find out who works in the office building next door and who lives in the apartment complex across the street.

Google Calendar

上次还和lihlii提起过Google要出Online Calendar，当时还有不少网上公布所谓测试页面的截图，有真有假。今天碰巧看到一篇说Google自买了Ori Alon算法后推出”Google Sets" 的服务。于是兴冲冲的跑去试，碰巧发现Google居然已经开通Calendar业务了。还没来得急仔细试，不过我也就要个记事提醒的功能，它也自然都带了。在我看来好处是可以和我使用的其他Google工具在一起使用，比较方便，当然你也就被套住了，哈哈！下面是个截图：

Using Enlightenment DR17 in Debian

The motivation is to use the small tool coming with E17 called Engage. However the packages provided by Debian are little bit out of date and the Engage is still not included. After trying out, I finally achieved the installation of the latest E17 in my Debian box. Here is one of my screenshots with default settings.



There might be other friends who are also searching for the solution. To share the experience I recorde the installation procee, including different achievments, at Wiki.QS in the article "Using Enlightenment DR17 in Debian".

写中文Blog的老外们！

今天大米的妈妈发给我一个链接，打开一看，发现是篇题为 “我不吃中药” 的Blog短文。当下以为又是哪个国内 “愤青” 的手笔。 不过仔细再看，略微觉得言辞的表达上有几分天真，使我又开始怀疑作者是哪位在外留学的 “娇宝宝”。 直到看见他称呼自己是 “老外” 才明白过来，原来这哥们儿是个写中文Blog的外国朋友。别的不说，其汉语表达的准确性实在是让我有点惊讶。也许我是 ”孤陋寡闻“。因为觉得有趣，又去看了他几个有同样兴趣的朋友的Blog, 也都各有特色。个人觉得这几个 ”老外“ 的汉语能力足以透过故事来表达他们的个性。有兴趣的朋友不防去看看：

来华干嘛
潘吉：超级老外

Merge: Gallery.QS, Wordpress.QS and Wiki.QS

这是下一步的打算，什么时候能完成就不知道罗。

重新组织了网站结构

主页面还是www.qingshen.de, 然后分为Blog.QS, Wiki.QS 和 Gallery.QS.

Blog.QS 主要用来记录一些流水帐和一些文摘，Wiki.QS则用来保存和整理一些重要的并需要不断更新的文档, Gallery.QS估计也就是当Gallery用吧:D