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If you go to Google Maps, you’ll notice there is now a “”More” button right next to “Street View”" and “Traffic.” If you click on it after getting a map, you will be given the options to tick “Photos” or “Wikipedia.” Ticking the first option populates teh map with geo-tagged photos provided by Panoramio. Ticking the second gives you geo-coded Wikipedia articles. For instance, I found entries on a New York City map for the Chrysler Building, Grand Central Station, the New York Yacht Club, and other landmarks.
The more that Google can populate maps with data, the more useful they become. I’d like to see geo-coded Flickr photos on there as an option. Maybe Jerry Yang can negotiate that as an extra if any search deal goes through. Yelp reviews would also be cool. What other data overlays should Google add to the “more option? What other buttons would readers like to see as well?
Update: Google has also integrated real-estate listings if you click on the “show search options” link. you can search by real estate, businesses, locations, user-created content, and mapped Web pages.
(Hat tip to Google Maps Mania).
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Love this.
they could overlay it like Helio and tell you who’s in that vicinity at that very second. or who lives there (like yellow pages). ok…this is creepy.
Cool site.
They should let you watch traffic in real-time and locate your friends via GPS.
This is a great direction.
@Brian, our New York-based developing service Unype.com can display news, flickr photos, upcoming events, user-shared photos/locations/videos as well as people’s real and virtual locations through the web or through Twitter and works on top of Google Maps and Google Earth along with chatbots and interactive games.
Who cares what Google puts on there. Make it available as an API and I’ll hook up the services I want to: Flickr, BrightKite, etc.
That would be a ton more useful (and better to look at) than a long list of “available” services that I can check, uncheck.
This is very cool. How about indoor panoramic shots of restaurants together with a menu and an youtube video of the Chef explaining it?
Peter
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they are becoming bloated, all i need to do is finding directions.
Panoramio? Sure it’s fine but Flickr must be a lot bigger. I can’t think of anyone I know who uses Panoramio. At this point Google launching a service like this and only promoting their own service is like Microsoft heavily pushing MSIE in the 1990s. Surely they have enough mindshare already, do they really need to use Google Maps to try to wrest market share from Yahoo/Flickr?
Doesn’t it feel like this is going to be way too crowded with pics?
Is it just me or anyone else finds it strange that Google still doesn’t have Street View for Seattle?
Is this some kind of anti-Microsoft statement?
This is Awesome!
I’d like to see news events. Hmmm, no news companies are geotagging their news yet? Better get on that.
I just happened to write about geotagging the news on my blog today. Pure coincidence, I swear.
http://burden.ca/blog/2008/05/.....g-the-news
How about if they bought WebCards?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....per-local/
And your business’s WebCard popped up when someone hovered over your building?
Google did it wrong! Photos should only appear in street view mode, since they are taken at that elevation, from that perspective.
It’s a nice step and I can see Google Maps becoming more of a GIS (Geographical Information System) then just a map with data overlayed.
But… How hard was it to add these 2 new layers to the map? It’s already on Google Earth so it is obviously a KML they have access to. Anyone can add KML’s to Google maps, so how hard was it for Google to add it to the ever expanding toolbar? Don’t mean to put a downer on it!
How about MP3 podcasts that are geocentric? Kind of like a Point-of-Interest cast or Poicast?
Now, if only Picasa Web Albums supported reading the EXIF GPS tags created by tools like GPS Photo Linker…
Ah, the pipe dream…
be better if they actually made google maps work properly first. Too slow but still the best available.
Why only in the US? Does the rest of the world not exist! Certainly the UK isn’t showing the new stuff yet.
Ignore my previous comment, it does work in the UK…… as long as you go to google.com not google.co.uk
If you also go to Google Meps and the street view you will also notice that the amazing 360 degree camera is now picking up prostitutes. SFW link.
http://www.gofrostfire.com/aca.....View_.html
As the post above states: ‘The more that Google can populate maps with data, the more useful they become.’
Actually if you search for example “Pfister Vogel” In Google Maps then you will get flickr photos pulled into Google Maps. Look on the left column search results and you will see some results with api.flickr.com.
Sadly, we here in Canada do not have street view because of privacy laws.
Anyone know how you could geotag posts from a blog to interact with Google Maps like this? I’d pay for the ability to do that.
I’ve been playing around with this for my real estate site and trying to figure out how to embed a map of the area with all the amenities. Hopefully I can figure out just how to make it all work!
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