Google Declares Another UGC Mapping Success - 17 countries and territories graduate from Map Maker By Doug Caverly - Thanks to the hard work of any number of individuals (along with Google's willingness to trust them), certain areas of Google Maps will now be a lot more detailed. An impressive 17 countries and territories have been deemed set to graduate from Google Map Maker to Google Maps. Although you may not hear about it often, Google Map Maker serves an important function by allowing people to manually add details about roads, towns, and other things when traditional mapping data is unavailable. It was introduced towards the end of 2008. The program's really caught on, too, considering that this update brings the total of graduated regions to an even 160. Anyway, this time around, the updated info relates to Brunei, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Kiribati, Kuwait, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Syria, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yemen. Google may enjoy a boost in market share in these regions as a result, or at the least, there's a distinct possibility that a few less American visitors will find themselves getting lost.

Screen snap from new and improved Google Maps for Panama.   

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - I recently picked up a slightly used Street Pilot III GPS and had a detailed GPS map of Panama map from Steve Magaric's Panama-Zone.com loaded. This is simply the best GPS mapping product currently available for Panama. I go all over the place and have been playing with the routing feature, "Go 400 feet and turn left, arriving at destination on right." Very cool. I like electronic toys anyway so this thing is right down my alley. Contact Steve if you want a copy of his map, and as far as I know he has the only good GPS map available for Panama. Again, excellent stuff.

Copyright 2007 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. As usual, go ahead and use whatever you want as long as you credit the source. Salud.   

Don; Here is the latest version of the map. You can now search for roads, towns, POI’s and suburbs etc. You can print as PDF, PNG etc also. Regards, Steve Panama Zone (Editor's Comment: Very nice. Allows user to zoom down to 1:3500 resolution, easily capture screen shots, pans quickly enough with good bandwidth, accurate and up to date. Very nice map, Steve. Thanks. The scroll wheel is kinda touchy. I hit it by accident and zoomed out three clicks. Also, I'm spoiled by Google Earth - any chance of getting geo-coords from a mouse-over?)    Click Here To Read The Full Article (1 words)

By Steve Magaric for Panama-Zone.com - I have just released a new pricing structure on the GPS map of Panama. The full version including lifetime updates is still available for $299.00 and a new edition for $149.00 without updates. Updates will be $39.00 each. I also have a few second hand Garmin Street Pilot III’s for $399.00 and these come preloaded with the GPS map. The map is suitable for Garmin GPS receivers or PC’s and Handhelds with the appropriate software. The map features over 1100 points of interest including most police, fire and gas stations and a selection of restaurants, attractions and more. The map covers roads, rivers, parks, towns and traffic lights of the entire country and is routable with voice navigation on units supporting this feature. The map is available from the on-line store at www.panama-zone.com. Screenshots can be viewed here. If you would like more info, please contact me directly. Regards, Steve Magaric, Panama Zone   Click Here To Read The Full Article (130 words)

I scrounge through the Internet every day looking for interesting things about Panama. Every now and then I run into sports articles that usually talk talk about the "Panama Girls Softball Team Wins in Last Minute Upset Over the Hooters" or something like that. Everyone knows about Panama (the one with the canal) and Panama City, Florida (spring-break) but did you know there is a Panama, Oklahoma? Population 1,396 (est. for 2005), and close to the Fort Smith, Arkansas mega-plex, they are just South of Cowlington on 59, and North of Shady Point. And in case those nice folks of Panama ever happen to run into this website, you should know that I'm following your high school sports teams rather closely.   Click Here To Read The Full Article (1 words)

This photo map shows the locations of the Hippodromo (Horse Racing Track), the Rommel Fernandez Soccer Stadium, where the most important games are played, and the Roberto Duran Stadium, which is mainly a boxing venue. Lately most of the big fights have been happening at the Figal Convention Center. See below for the map.   Click Here To Read The Full Article (1 words)

Here's a photo map to the Los Pueblos shopping area, thanks to Steve Magaric.    Click Here To Read The Full Article (1 words)

What a cool tool. Hit this link, and it will take you to a site where you can look up obscure placenames in Panama and see where they are on a map. This is very nice... http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PM/8/

Here's the link for Arenosa;

http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PM/8/Arenosa.html   

Here's one you don't want to miss, a link to SERVIR: A 21st Century System for Improved Environmental Decision Making in Mesoamerica. SERVIR is headquartered at Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) in the City of Knowledge, Panama. They are producing some of the best imagery available of Panama and the enitre region.   Click Here To Read The Full Article (63 words)

Just hit this link and you will get back a search return with more than 3,310 maps of Panama. Too cool for school...