Google Maps has just announced that they launched a beta verison of Turn by Turn navigation software for the Android 2.0 platform! Features highlighted are : Search in plain English Search by Voice Traffic view Search along route Satellite view Street View Car dock mode The first phone to be supporting the application will be [...]
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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 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 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 [...]
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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