Google Street View, more and more, now double the coverage! This is what the official LatLong blog is reporting once again. Things seems to go fast now! First it was the bigscreen update and now again extended coverage after New Zealand became available as well. Coverage has been extended to new cities in states that [...]
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When you embed your own Google Maps, don’t forget to…
It’s been a while ago that Google introduced a very easy way to embed a Google Map into your website, without needing to sign up for a Google Maps API key. A lot of website owners are using these embedded maps because it’s very easy to implement on your website by just going to the [...]
Google Maps Interface Revamped for Street View
The Google Maps interface was revamped, again, to get a better user experience, especially by putting more attention to Google Street View and to increase maps usage in general. This was just announced on the Google LatLong blog When you drag the pegman (the little yellow mascotte) from the zoom bar to the map you [...]
Fixing incorrect business information
I was just reading through Miriam’s Solas webdesign blog and read something I didn’t knew was there before. Here goes the story: If you encounter some incorrect business information for Emergency Services in Google it is possible to use a special contact form to notify Google of these errors. If you’ve discovered incorrect business information [...]
Google Maps embedded in ATM Machine
This is the first time I saw this, Google Maps embedded in an ATM machine of “La Caixa”. I don’t know how long it has been there and I’ve been living in Barcelona for almost 10 months now and use these ATM machines often. I was planning on buying some tickets for a concerts using [...]
Google Maps API got its Terms of Service & FAQ updated
The Google Maps team announced that they just updated their Google Maps API Terms of Service. Also they updated the FAQ (and hope to keep it updated regularly). I’ve quickly read through the FAQ and ToS find it more thorough than before. For a Change Log overview you’d have to go here. Update: If you [...]
Google Street View also in Italy!
Just a few days ago I reported about Google Street View available in Spain. Italy now has the follow up! It is available in Rome, Florence and Milan. As I said before, I expect more countries and cities to be announced soon!
Spain second country to have Google StreetView
Spain is now the second country in Europe to have StreetView available, in 4 cities, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville. This was the announcement made yesterday on the Google LatLong blog. The first country to have StreetView available was France, soon after the Tour de France took place. So now you will be able to [...]
StreetView kicks off in France – Rest of Europe Soon?
Good to hear that the Google LatLong blog just reported that France is the first country in Europe to be launching Google Streetview, right after they already featured this service during this summer’s ‘Tour de France’. Now some major cities have been added to StreetView in France and Google is looking forward to add more [...]
The Real Reason for more AdSense underneath the Maps
More Google AdSense appearing in Google Maps – I’m seeing all kinds of posts popup about this ‘new’ Ads you can see underneath Google Maps. People at Techcrunch are even giving it a weird financial twist. Almost two weeks ago I asked Mike Blumenthal about these ads I started noticing and they might have been [...]
About Martijn
I'm Martijn Beijk, Digital Analytix Consultant with comScore. In my sparetime I specialize in Local Search.
My enthusiasm lays in Local & Mobile, including location-based services, context-awareness, semantic web and things as such.
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