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How do I teach Chrome's omnibar to search in Google Maps?

It seems that the only site on the web that is unavailable for search via Chrome's omnibar is Google's own Maps. Is there any way I could teach the omnibar to search Google Maps?
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Where can I find Google Maps with a geopolitical overlay, as in colored countries?

FOUND IT, at last (as close as it gets) I am looking for Google Maps (or any other interactive map) with a geopolitical overlay of the world (colored countries). I'm not interested in Google API references to roll my own, I'm looking for something…
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How does Google My Location work?

Google My Location in Google Maps is able to find your approximate position with good accuracy. Although it's clear that it makes use of GeoIP mapping, they need a more accurate strategy to pinpoint your location. It is claimed that it uses the…
Stefano Borini
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Can I use Google Maps instead of Microsoft Maps in Windows 10?

In Windows 10, I like the way you can click on an address in, say, the People app and it'll load a map of where they live. Unfortunately I'd rather that it uses Google Maps instead of Microsoft's own (which failed to find the first address I tried…
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What happened to the Earth view in Google Maps on Chrome?

A couple of months ago, Google Maps on the Chrome browser lost the "Earth" view mode. I can no longer get the 3D view or zoom out to see the real time cloud cover. All it has is the 'satellite' view. At first I thought this was a bug they would…
P a u l
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xdotool, click and hold and move the mouse

I want to automate a task, I need to scroll a Google like map interface, what I essentially do normally is: Click an a spot Hold the clicking Move the mouse relatively 100 pixels left Stop holding Wait a little, return to 1 However, I tried $…
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How to make Google Maps display place names in English

Google Maps displays some place names in the local language - particularly islands, so although the country name Italy is displayed in English for me, I get the island names Sardegna and Sicilia which haven't been localized away from Italian. How…
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Screenshot capture of google maps which has to be scrolled

I have read about this in some questions here , and tried almost all their solutions but none of them have worked for me for one reason or other. I want to take a snapshot from google maps, directions window which need to be scrolled to see full…
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How to transfer Google Earth route to Google Maps?

I have a GPX route, I imported it into Google Earth. Everything is fine, so I saved it as KMZ file. Then just for check, I imported KMZ back into Google Earth. No problem. The thing is, I would like to work with Google Maps, no Google Earth and I am…
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Google services slow in Google Chrome

Since at least 2019/07/10, on 3 different Windows 10 PCs (mix of v1809 and v1903) used by 2 different users, we're experiencing a problem whereby seemingly all Google services (Google Maps, YouTube, Google Search, etc) load incredibly slowly in…
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Display tracert on Google or Bing Maps

Is there a program of perhaps website that can display a list of ip-adresses on Google or Bing maps? For instance, if I do tracert -d www.youtube.com, I'll get a bunch of IP-addresses, displaying the path my request travelled. I'd think it funny to…
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How to map a route on google maps using gps coordinates

If I were to collect a series of gps coordinates with a device, how could I view those points on google maps in a route? Note that this is not a consumer device.
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How to transfer google maps placemarks from my maps to iphone?

I'm looking for a way to transfer the placemarks from google maps to iPhone maps. I usually set placemarks to the points of interest (sightseeings, hotels, restaurants) in foreign cities and using them with the iphone GPS would be great, however, I…
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How can I make context menus in Google Maps not get hidden by context menus in Firefox?

Google Maps provides a useful context menu — AKA right click menu — within its map area. When I visit Google Maps with Firefox 3.6 or Firefox 4, I have a hard time accessing that menu because my right clicks cause Firefox's own context menu to open…
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alternatives to google maps for large-scale GIS viewers?

I would like to view a map of Indonesia / Australia / New Zealand like Google Maps, except that I'd like to customize the layers viewed: I'd like to use a topographic/bathymetric basemap, and show lat/long grid lines. I just downloaded Google Earth…
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