Blogger now supports Geotagging

martijn — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:58:14 +0000

Blogger now supports Geotagging.
Wanted to share this one as it is an approach to make everything more local and apply some metadata to information on the web, trying to structure it. One of the important things of the semantic web; structured information.
They even made it easy for you; enter your location or browse the map, easy japanesey! The location will also appear in your RSS feed.

Hooray for more structured data!
Did you know Google is already showing attempts of structured data in the Search Engine Result Pages?
Try a search for ‘Queen of the Netherlands‘ and you will notice that Google is using taxonomies (Queen: Beatrix) on unstructured data.

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Blogger now supports Geotagging

Mobile Maps get updated with Streetview and walking directions

martijn — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:33:13 +0000

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 top notch review, you got Streetview to show you the place and Google even provides you the walking directions on how to get there. Google Maps Mobile really is becoming some sort of personal navigator.
Now I’m thinking, maybe we should think of a way to measure that we actually visited a restaurant because of a specific review (=offline conversion) in Google Maps. Google Mobile coupons anyone?

You can checkout the youtube video from Google:

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Mobile Maps get updated with Streetview and walking directions

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Blogger now supports Geotagging

Mobile Maps get updated with Streetview and walking directions