Syria: Mapping the Conflict

Territorial control in Syria has changed many times since the country's uprising began more than three years ago and the current conflict is characterized by fluctuating frontlines.
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Seeking a Town on the Border of Fiction and Reality

SOMEWHERE NEAR AGLOE, N.Y. — It is one thing to lose your keys or your iPhone, even the love of your life, but to lose an entire town? Yet that is what just happened in upstate New York. Last week, Google did something it almost never does — it wiped a town off its maps. Read more...

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Create Your Own Street View!

Have you ever tried to convey the feeling of walking through your favorite park? Well it's now possible for you to build your own Street View experiences to do just that. Using a new feature in our Views community, you can easily connect your photo spheres to create 360º virtual tours of the places you love, then share them with the world on Google Maps. Click here to find out more!

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