Monday, 25 April 2011 11:41

Google Map Maker in the US Featured

Written by Thom Henderson
This is the beginning of the new crowd sourced mapping tools that Google have been developing for the last 3 years. This comprehensive network has improved and updated the maps in over 183 countries. The map is always just a map and Google wants to enrich their data mine maps with ratings, landmarks and other detailed information.
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As our world continually evolves we will need the online maps to be updated on a day to day basis. We are expanding at an astronomical rate and the amount of digital data is sure to be the largest online map resource with every aspect detailed with its own home page. Soon location search will be exclusive to maps.google.com

The foundation of this program came with Google Maps, Google Streetview, Google Local Businesses and the most recent revelation Google Places. These all need map coordinates and with our new improved system the data will be available and packaged with location based advertising. This will help out local businesses while making it easier for the internet surfer to find where they need to go. Give them a call to find out more information or simply follow on to the next highly rated, quality, link. Once the functionality has been tweaked to perfection the Use of Maps will encourage other local business users to sign up and give their details to the resource.

Google is becoming a more integrated part of our lives and with more than 20% of all searches are for local things, they need to expand their market to include the businesses around the user automatically. The big vision of Google is to compete with new internet craze FourSquare which we touched on a while ago. Being kept on their toes is something that will always give us better results and we can’t wait to see whats coming out of the Map Maker in the near future.
Last modified on Monday, 31 October 2011 06:40
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