Explore Liberty City with Google Map application
by Griffin McElroy 
{ May 3rd 2008 at 7:00PM }
Between the comprehensive in-game map, the GPS-imbued minimap, and the TomTom-esque functionality of certain vehicles, we've yet to misplace ourselves within Liberty City's digital boroughs. Still, if you find yourself lost whilst playing Grand Theft Auto IV, we guess this Liberty City map application (mapplication?) using the Google Maps interface would come in handy.
A number of user contributions have already been made to the map, showing the location of hidden items, easter eggs, pigeon locations, stunt jumps, and yes, even hookers, whom we assume were fitted with GPS locaters by trained prostitute handlers before being released back into the wild. It makes for a useful cartographical companion for those with a laptop near their console of choice -- if you don't mind ruining the fun of exploring the nooks and crannies of Rockstar's intricately crafted metropolis for yourself, that is.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
theturtle363 @ May 3rd 2008 7:06PM
Hugh Grant lol
fischju @ May 3rd 2008 7:11PM
Just needs Street View!
mr nimblewick @ May 3rd 2008 7:16PM
Did this come from inside Google? Don't they have anything better to do?
Kite @ May 4th 2008 2:08PM
Google provides the api's, other people use these api's to actually make something working.
So no, this is not only google's work.
Psaakyrn @ May 3rd 2008 7:20PM
*stabs pigeon spoiler*
F1 @ May 3rd 2008 7:51PM
The Whore Hunter. Coming to Animal Planet this July!!
ill trooper @ May 4th 2008 6:16AM
I heard it was going to be on WEAZEL, actually...
Lekko @ May 3rd 2008 8:09PM
Now they just need to export this app to the PSP and use the PSP as your GPS in-game.
C'mon guys, it wouldn't be all THAT hard.
TheOverlord#2 can has Mario Karts?(MK:2578-3517-9859) @ May 3rd 2008 8:34PM
Doesn't the PSP have an internet application? Just go to it and use it as a GPS
Lekko @ May 3rd 2008 9:04PM
yeah... it does. But I want it to update my location and position on the PSP as I play, like a GPS.
It would be nice to use the PSP to navigate instead of the tiny minimap they have in-game.
ill trooper @ May 4th 2008 6:17AM
That would be really cool.
rv @ May 4th 2008 2:03PM
IT wouldn't be bad, the minimap is hard to read if you have a wanted level.
PSN: KillaKornbread (the shirt is a lie!) @ May 5th 2008 4:22AM
that would be friggin sweet cause like everyone else is saying, the mini map is very.....mini. if they could do something like that through remote play, that would be the shit. but i wouldnt get my hopes up for something like that though.
Chris @ May 3rd 2008 8:46PM
This is a couple of days old.
I'm a long-time reader of this site, but it seems I'm always reading about these types of things on Joystiq last.
Tom @ May 3rd 2008 8:38PM
What you really need is one of these for Paradise Cirty to keep up on your laptop while you race.
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ May 3rd 2008 8:47PM
Just wondering: is there a Google Map for Azeroth?
Nushio (NDF - Blue) @ May 3rd 2008 11:57PM
WoW addicts are too busy playing to make stuff like run a WoW-based blog or make Google maps.
JakubK666 (Ninja Defence Force) @ May 4th 2008 6:28AM
There is an Outland Map.
http://mapwow.com/
svenhoek @ May 3rd 2008 11:52PM
Epic win with the Hugh Grant link. 15 internets to you good sir.
hvnlysoldr @ May 4th 2008 11:22PM
It's Ren's cousin. Cool man.
why not the LS2LS7? @ May 4th 2008 1:13AM
Is there way to do something like this, but with no information initially and only what I add to it? I want to use this to keep track of my notes, but I don't want my experience of the game robbed by seeing everyone else's notes.
Mike @ May 4th 2008 5:00AM
This does not seem like the google map interface. Where is the mouse wheel zoom? Kind of blows.
ratm @ May 4th 2008 7:25AM
I always wondered what those journalists and politicians were doing with hookers in the game in the first place.