Google Maps mash-ups
p2pnet.net news:- Google is hoping it’ll get the jump on other companies with maps offering local searches.
Its new feature lets people create custom maps, “documenting anything from the neighborhood’s best bars to the world’s biggest volcanoes – supplemented by embedded notes, links, digital video and photos,” says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
“The Google Maps My Maps feature, available at maps.google.com, is the latest salvo in an intense competition among the major online mapping sites,” says the story. “Those sites are often closely connected to local search features, which return information about people and businesses in specific geographic areas.
“The business is attractive to search companies in part because local search features also allow ads to be targeted by geography, which is more desirable to some advertisers.”
Thousands of hybrid maps, often called “mashups,” already are already available online but, ‘Cobbling together an online map typically requires some computer coding skills,” says Associated Press.
Google, however, ” has tailored its tools for a mass audience, making map mashups as easy to produce as pointing and clicking a computer mouse,” it says.
Also See:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Google is banking on you to help map out its future, April 5, 2006
Associated Press – Google providing new tools for maps, April 5, 2006
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