Another recent post at the Google Lat Long Blog adds to the parents "don't know" perception, titled "How to find directions online (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)" And the article's author has a mother who needed help...
Per the official Google Lat Long Blog: Starting today, if you're a verified Google Places business owner, you can publicly respond to reviews written by Google Maps users on the Place Page for your business.
As Michael Boland said, check-ins are "grounded in specific places rather than random lat/long readings. Did you notice on the picture that Google Maps also came up with Twitter Places? The move was announced by Twitter's Othman Laraki on the...
Hanke says there will be additional posts on the Lat Long blog throughout the week to provide a deeper dive into many of these new features. According to John Hanke, Google's VP Google Maps, Earth and Local, "Millions of people use Google every day...
So when a phone without GPS needs its own location, the application on the phone queries the Google location server with the cell tower ID to translate that into a geographic location, i.e.lat/long coordinates.
Google Lat Long Blog announced Google Maps and Google Earth teaming up to provide User Reviews and refinement by Neighborhood in local search results. Yup - Yelp reviews can be found in Google Maps along with Zagat, CitySearch and UGC so restaurant...
Google Maps has gained some more features from Google Earth this week, including the ability for a group to collaborate on map updates, and the addition of a terrain maps feature, according to the Google Lat Long Blog.
It's starting with the ability to move a place marker to the correct location, and will later include the ability to edit more details about the location, Seth LaForge, software engineer for Google Maps, writes on the Lat Long Blog
At the Google Lat-Long Blog, Karen Roter Davis compares this implementation to the in-flight maps Google offers on JetBlue and Virgin America flights. Google has struck a deal with gas pump kiosk maker Gilbarco Veeder-Root to implement Google Maps...
According to Google's Lat Long Blog, the new feature allows users to pick a destination on a map by right-clicking, and move that destination by clicking on it and dragging it to a new location. Users of Google Maps have been able to click and drag...
Google yesterday announced on the Lat Long Blog that it will begin to offer the opportunity to read and write user generated reviews of businesses that show up in local listings in Google Maps. Reviews in Google Maps can now be found in a small...
Google Launches New "Geo" BlogGoogle has started the Lat Long Blog, focusing on Google Earth, Maps, Local and APIs. Hitwise Tracks the Storm of Online News and MediaA new report from Hitwise maps the current state of the online news and media...
Google Launches New "Geo" BlogGoogle has started the Lat Long Blog, focusing on Google Earth, Maps, Local and APIs. We've collected all the search engine news from selected posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent...
Google Launches New "Geo" BlogGoogle has started the Lat Long Blog, focusing on Google Earth, Maps, Local and APIs. Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from...
Lat Long Blog will chronicle Google's efforts to build the "geoweb," according to John Hanke, director of Google Earth & Maps. Google has started a new blog focusing on Google Earth, Maps, Local and APIs.
