links for 2009-11-11

Hawaii becomes the 50th US state, more cities in Spain, 50 in the Netherlands, and 5 in Mexico come to Google Street View.

"Since the launch of Google Latitude earlier this year, we've been getting a lot of feature requests. One of the most popular ideas was for Latitude to keep track of location history, allowing you (but not your friends) to see where you've been at any point in time. Another popular idea was to notify you when you're near your Latitude friends so you can easily meet up or grab lunch. Today, we're happy to introduce both Google Location History and Google Location Alerts (beta) to let you do even more with Latitude."

A great hack that enables users to use Google Maps with Navigation on the G1 (remember it's currently exclusive to the Droid right now)