The recent announcement of Google switching to just one map supplier, namely the dutch company TeleAtlas, has caused an increase of alerts on Google Maps errors in the Google Maps Help Groups. I’ve seen reports so far of incorrect routes, missing cities, wrongly placed addresses, etc, etc. And as Miriam Ellis points out on her [...]
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Mobile Maps get updated with Streetview and walking directions
Some of you may have read it elsewhere. Google is announcing StreetView and walking directions for Google Maps mobile! Combine all of these features together with the MyLocation feature they introduced earlier and there is no way you can miss that specific restaurant with that 5-star review anymore. You got location-based services using Cell-ID, a [...]
The research Quest
I was searching for some documentation about on site embedded Google Maps implementations and geocoding features of the Google Maps API. Many times, I have to remember myself, to look into the google code pages. Because they turn out to be a very helpful resource of information. So, with some help, I ran across this [...]
Are you ready for Street View?
It seems that Europe is getting ready for the Street View feature in Google Maps. In the past couple of months there were reports of Google Street View cars visiting various cities in Europe, for example, here in Madrid and Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam/Rotterdam. And just this afternoon a colleague shot this picture outside our office [...]
What should Google do?
What should Google do to make their Google Maps product more successful? First off all, in the ‘link’ feature, to send people links of google maps, they should provide you with some sort of tinyURL that is descriptive. Everywhere you see Google asking you to be clear as possible, using good structured URL formats, etc, [...]
Google engineers – shed some light please
OK. Less might be more, but what’s this? Now select everything that is inside the balloon and copy it into a text file.
Less is…more Maps
Less is more, that’s what Google wrote on their LatLong blog. They decided to clean the Google Maps interface a bit, which was by now cluttered with all kinds of information which made some of the users dazzle. Again, Let’s do something for the user-experience. let’s make it more easy! Bigger Map viewing area for [...]
Google Maps Spam report option – tiny hooray for Google
This morning I read on Matt’s Blog that Google opened up a thread in the Google Maps Help Groups for Business Owners where we are now able to post our Google Maps spam issues. You can find it here In the meanwhile, colleague in the Local Search business, Mike Blumenthal featured a little story what [...]
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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