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Holy Caipirinhaa. Now...it's Brazil 25 Oct 2007 | 04:31 pm
Google Maps and Local Search go live in Brazil. Amazing. Example: "Google near Belo Horizonte" showing user provided content (blue pinpoint) for the Google office. Another example "pizza near the ca...
Recursive queries in Google Maps....this is cool! 24 Oct 2007 | 12:34 am
Google Maps now provides the amazing ability to do recursively refined queries. This means you can query for a business located near something else, for example. "sushi near the Empire State Building...
Google Mixes Search Results with User Contributed Content 24 Oct 2007 | 12:17 am
Google Maps has started mixing official Local Search results with User Contributed content, in this case, KML files. KML (Keyhole Markup Language) is an emerging standard for encoding geo-spatial data...
Google Maps in Singapore, South Africa, and Ireland 23 Oct 2007 | 11:59 pm
Google Maps has launched in three new countries: Singapore, South Africa, and Ireland. In addition, the Google Local Business Center (LBC) is also available in those countries to allow local business ...
Google's Street View...now, it's personal. 31 May 2007 | 03:43 am
Google Maps just announced the addition of street-level panoramic photos in five cities -- NYC, LA, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Denver. It's called "Street View" and it allows you to virtually stand...
Arrrgggghhh.....talk like a pirate this summer!!!! 23 May 2007 | 09:47 am
A reader asked me, "how can I use Google Maps to help plan my summer sailing trip". Well, there are several ways, but the one that I think is probably most interesting, is to build your own personal m...
...One Search to bind them all... 20 May 2007 | 06:59 am
Google integrates their various search engines into one. Is maps.google.com history? Well, not quite. But there are some great new ways to search for maps and businesses directly from google.com, Fir...
Add or Edit your business 15 May 2007 | 12:49 pm
Google maps has moved the "Add or Edit your business" link to the top of the details page. This is good news, because the link used to be at the bottom of the details page, and often below the fold......
Google LatLong: A new world unfolding 15 May 2007 | 09:06 am
Google LatLong: A new world unfolding Google now has an official blog just for Geo information, Google Lat-Long. Check it out.
Multiple listings may not be duplicates 3 May 2007 | 10:35 am
One complaint often raised is that Google Maps shows lots of duplicates. Maybe yes, maybe no. Here's one I ran into today. Mid-America Industrial Park, Pryor, OK. At first, it appears there are four c...
