Google Lets Users Customize Their Own Maps
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Users can customize maps by adding information such as the location of cheap gas stations or property for sale.
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The search giant Google is rumoured to be working on its own web browser.
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Hoping to make it even easier to turn its online maps into collages of local information, Google Inc. is introducing tools that will stitch together applications from a hodgepodge of Web sites.
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Google's video-sharing site helps users edit uploads without leaving the site.
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Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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(InfoWorld) - Google has created a searchable index of Google Earth data files, a feature that should make it easier for users to find and adopt third-party overlays for this popular mapping application. Google Earth's search engine now returns KML (Keyhole Markup Language) files which developers have created to add data to the application's maps, the Mountain View, California, company said Wednesday. "Users can now search through all of the world's KML files, making the millions of Google Earth layers on the Web instantly accessible for geobrowsing and exploration," wrote Chikai Ohazama, a Google Earth product manager in an official company blog. Google expects to later extend this capability to its mapping Web site Google Maps, Ohazama wrote. Google Earth is a free, downloadable PC application that taps a multiterabyte database of aerial and satellite images to let users "fly" around the globe using a video-game type user interface. By creating overlays in the KML file format, users can create markers to pinpoint places and provide all sorts of information about an area, making Google Earth a repository of local business listings, homes for sale, photos, architectural drawings, videos, historical facts and geographical data. KML users range from casual, individual users to large organizations like Discovery Networks, the U.S. National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic. KML can also be used to add data files to Google Maps, a mapping Web site that is one of the most popular among developers for creating mashups, which are Web applications that use data and features from an existing site or online service via application programming interfaces (APIs). Online maps, in combination with local search engines, have become very popular in recent years, giving people a way to discover local businesses and attractions, obtain driving directions and view satellite images of an area, among other things. Google competitors like Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., AOL LLC and Ask.com have made their mapping sites a high priority for development. Advertising revenue in local search engines is expected to grow from US$3.4 billion in 2005 to $13 billion in 2010, according to The Kelsey Group Inc.
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New widgets help personalize maps with dynamic content from diverse sources.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as &quot;Street View,&quot; but it looks a bit like &quot;Candid Camera&quot; as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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What's the best way to provide digital driving directions to the likes of Google and Garmin? May the best map win. By Wilson Rothman from Wired magazine.
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Oracle is adding a visual component to one of its E-Business Suite applications to help service providers locate customers more quickly using Google Maps.
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Google Inc. said on Tuesday it was introducing street-level map views of various U.S. cities, giving Web users a panoramic, 360-degree images as well as the overhead views Google Maps has offered.
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Leave it to Google Inc. to innovate. Its new online mapping service produces impressive U.S. maps that please the eye and are fun to navigate. And unlike competing services, you can put all your search terms into one box.
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Google Maps can be a bit of a shutterbug these days.
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New from PHPRiot today, there's this new tutorial showing you how to combine a PHP interface with the Google Maps API to do some geocoding of your own.   Geocoding is the process of finding the longitude and latitude of a given address or location. The Google Maps service gives developers and web site owners free access to their geocoder, both using the Google Maps JavaScript API, as well as using the web service. In this article I will show you how to access the geocoder web service using PHP so that it can be used in your own applications.   The tutorial walks you through every step of the way - from getting your Google API ID to making a simple request all the way out to using placemarks to store locations to fetch later on.   This is a great, very detailed summary that anyone wanting to work with the Google API in PHP should definitely check out.
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Over at Search Engine Land, Greg Sterling posted about a Google Maps sticker which was spotted at a London restaurant:  Smart! The technique is usually used by review and ratings companies like Zagat so establishments can show off their ratings.  Given the lack of customer reviews and ratings within Google Maps (sure, one can find many third [...]
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New Google fee-based service, Custom Business Search Edition, lets users build search pages for their own Web sites.
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Driving directions redux Youâll never use MapQuest again. With a new addition to its Google Maps service, Google has completely reinvented the notion of online driving directions, letting you adjust routes in with a simple drag and drop.â¦