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PublicRoutes.com, a search engine for public transportation directions has expanded its service to include London. The London launch marks the first time a company has offered directions for public transportation in more than one country. The site offers users point-to-point directions and covers all forms of transportation. It also offers directions to a city's main attractions such as restaurants, sporting venues and nightlife spots along with the option to book hotels and flight reservations.

Google continues its pattern of omnigooglization in Europe by acquiring the Internet, mapping and data processing units of Switzerland-based Endoxon, for an undisclosed sum.

Urban Mapping, a company that "prides itself on broad domain expertise," has been around for a while - its maps have actually won several awards. It's getting fresh attention, though, for what one person has termed its "natural local search."

PRWeb announced today that they are now offering a service that will allow their press release distribution clients the ability to map the company domain name to the RSS feed of the release hosted by PRWeb.

Google may want to organize the world's information, but Microsoft wants to let you know how long you're going to have to wait for a table at Red Lobster on Friday evening.

Ask.com launched its revamped Maps product at SES 2006 NY last week to the warm approval of users, and called out its competition on imagery quality.

Called Google Earth, the 3D mapping service brings a combination of aerial and satellite photos to the desktop.

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