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 [...]
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Google Maps Turn-by-Turn navigation for android 2.0
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 [...]
Collecting Street View data
Saw this one over at Mike’s blog and found it funny enough to share with you people. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Must be one hell of a job!
Google Street View by bike?
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 [...]
Google files declaration with Brussels for Privacy Commission
According to Belgium newspaper ‘De Standaard‘ Google will soon file a declaration to the Belgium Privacy Commission to continue their Street View project in Belgium. Google thought at first it would not be necessary to file a declaration because of existing certificates that made their datasharing between EU and US possible. A statement from the [...]
Put Street View on Full Screen
Woah, enjoy the views of streetview now in Full screen mode! by pressing the new button in the right hand corner. Quite stunning if you ask me! Try it in Barcelona, close where I used to live, you will see the bullfighting arena ‘Monumental’ and in the same picture also another Street View car. Try [...]
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, [...]
Local Search will bring you in the year of 2009…
The following! With each new year, people start creating lists. Things to do, things not to do. Well, here is mine for the year of 2009. more collaborated research more in-depth local SEO tactics A new template design WordPress Plugin(s) Update(s) to my tutorial: KML for Local SEO Street View Europe Local Citation Sources Europe [...]
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 [...]
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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