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 [...]
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Tracking Local Search traffic using Analytics
One of the most important things after you have registered your business is to know how much traffic this will get to your website. I’ve put up a very thorough tutorial on Mike Blumenthal’s blog and I suggest you all check it out. I’ll put up a part here in this post to give you [...]
Google Maps takes the lead
Seems its official now, Google Maps has taken over the lead from mapquest and is now the number one most used mapping product. This, according to figures of both comscore, compete and as of this weekend, also Hitwise. (via: Mike Blumenthal)
Some fun for the Easter weekend
Here is something from the Google Latitude team to keep us busy for the easter weekend (or whenever). It is meant to encourage people to use Latitude and discover all the fun fun fun! You can find my personalized easter message here
Street View now available in UK and Netherlands
Street View UK and NL have been added to Google Maps – for me a great opportunity to get back into the writing saddle. Major cities have now been added to Google Maps Street View for both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Grotere kaart weergeven Cities that have been added include London, Liverpool, Birmingham, [...]
Google Maps gets a new layer – Transit
Google Maps just was upgraded with a new Layer feature, called Transit. It comes directly from the Google Transit product. Transit information was already available in some countries, but it wasn’t available from directly from the interface. The Google LatLong blog reported this just a few minutes ago. Go along and use it and be [...]
The Year 2008 in Google Maps
What has changed with Google Maps in the year 2008? Google Maps Mania put up a thorough summary of everything that was going on in the last year. It covers Street View availability in location throughout the world including Spain, France and Italy. The two major upgrades to the interface and many many other stuff [...]
Google Street View – give me more
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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