Yes! Finally, almost half of the Netherlands is now covered in Street View, including some parts of the city where I live, Zwolle. This is what the LatLong blog reported yesterday. More Street View cities have become available in the Netherlands and Spain. Apart from that Google also announced that Street View imagery is now [...]
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 the motorola droid. More info in the video!
via: mashable
Google has added extra visuals in the map data to show where specific points of interests and landmarks are. Libraries, museums, pharmacies, restaurants, shops and all kinds of other places are now easily recognizable by embedded visuals in map data.
A negative side-effect of the feature is that a map can get a bit crowded. Big [...]
The Google Maps team on twitter just notified their followers that they were handing out these:
Paper Google Maps with Public Transport information on the back.
It appears that this also must be an addition to the marketing campaign they are running for Google Maps as a product.
It has been a while since we have seen some major interface changes to Google Maps. Today I noticed some of the following changes and wondered for how long they have already been there.
update: i was a bit behind on my reader and noticed Matt posted about this on SEL as well
I did some [...]
Google has put up a list of all their geo related twitter accounts and this is something I wanted to share with you in case you haven’t read it already.
twitter.com/GoogleMaps
twitter.com/GoogleEarth
twitter.com/EarthOutreach
twitter.com/SketchUp
twitter.com/3DWH
twitter.com/Modelyourtown
twitter.com/GoogleSkyMap
The twitter accounts are pretty self explanatory.
BTW: remember you can follow me on twitter too! @martijnbeijk is where you will find my tweets.
The Google team just announced that MyLocation, the feature we all know from the iphone Google Maps application will be available from our desktop if you run a supported browser. A blue dot will automatically appear when Google Maps is able to determine your location.
Supported browsers currently are:
Google Chrome 2.0+ (using Gears),
Mozilla [...]
David Mihm has been showing off his whiteboard skills over at SEOmoz whiteboard friday. I really want to share these 2 video’s with my readers.
The first video is about Local Search Inclusion:
SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Local Search Inclusion with David Mihm
The second video is about SEO for Local Search
SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – SEO for [...]
This must be one of the biggest pieces for Local Search to read on this year (like last year). David Mihm published its Volume 2 of the Local Search Ranking Factors.
The general idea of the Local Search Ranking Factors is to give business owners a chance in understanding the things that matter to Local SEO. [...]
Google Japan decided to take a different strategic approach to Street View to not violate privacy regulations. Instead of the regular Street View car they are now using a bicycle, with a slightly different set up.
the new setup includes:
the bicycle (trike) with the camera almost half a meter lower than the normal ’street car setup’.
a telephone [...]
