The Art Gallery of Ontario has become the first Canadian museum to be added to the Google Art Project, which is a kind of online gallery that allows visitors to view and zoom-in on high-resolution images of art objects. The AGO’s involvement in the project was announced earlier today. You can check out items from [...]

SPOTTED BY: Torontoist contributor Stephen Michalowicz WHERE: Google Maps WHEN: March 31 WHAT: Getting a jump on April Fools’ Day: Google, which introduced an 8-bit version of the world into its regular Google Map interface today. To use it yourself go to Google Maps and click on the “Quest” button in the top right corner—right [...]

Since the summer of 2010, Toronto’s political discourse has remained cranked at eleven. And while our new mayor isn’t completely to blame, he’s lit more than his share of fires. But just what kind of impact is this new climate having on Toronto’s online presence? To answer this tough question, we consulted the most important [...]

On Thursday, we spilled the beans about the TTC’s new integration with Google Maps, which means that as of this very moment you can use Google’s service as a trip planner. (Just don’t try to get to get to Ottawa.) We missed mentioning it at the time, but the whole thing should work on your [...]

A sample TTC trip planned using Google Maps. It’s about time. Launched in 2005, Google Maps has provided transit directions for a number of transit agencies across North America, but up until now, TTC customers haven’t had the benefit of Google-based internet trip planning. That’s changed now, as Google and the TTC have quietly activated [...]

Since its official launch in August 2008, Google Suggest has been fuelling a new auto-complete meme that has taken off on social sites like Digg and Reddit and even encouraged news sites like Slate to take a pseudo-sociolinguistic look at Google’s most popular searches. What we search can tell us a lot about who we [...]

Google Earth image of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, just outside of Atlanta. In the two rooms of Gallery 44 at 401 Richmond Street West, you can see planes take off from Chicago’s O’Hare and Tokyo’s International Airport at the same time. The gallery’s current exhibition, entitled “Google Earth”—running from October 23 to November 28—features a handful [...]

The neighbourhoods of Alderwood and Long Branch have been almost entirely omitted from Google Street View. The blue lines represent the areas covered by Google Street View. Contrary to what Google Street View indicates, Browns Line doesn’t have a huge gap in it. Although Google has mapped most of the city in 3D, Street View [...]