Google Turns Maps Into a Community
O'Reilly Radar has the rundown on big changes at Google Maps. It's becoming a full-fledged community where people can annotate places with photos and videos and share them with the world. Very smart idea and further evidence that builds on my last post. This landscape is ever evolving. Marketers and communicators need to hone in on the watering holes where their audiences hang out - and there will be many of them.
TownKings does the same with yahoo maps and flash - but much better
More Infos: http://blog.insnet.de/2007/townkings-real-life-statt-second-life/
Posted by: Fabian Nöthe | Thursday, April 05, 2007 at 10:34 AM
is this substantially different from the saved, searchable, perma-linkable collections that local.live.com has?
Posted by: chris hollander | Thursday, April 05, 2007 at 10:35 AM
The key here is context. By giving us the users the power to connect what we do to something others know about (in this case the places the maps depict) we put our actions in to context.
This is in some way the map equivalent of what we're doing with Nearbie www.nearbie.com where history is the connector.
I'm very keen to take MyMaps for a proper testdrive.
Posted by: Jaan | Thursday, April 05, 2007 at 12:03 PM
Wow.. that looks friggen cool!
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Posted by: Everyday Weekender | Thursday, April 05, 2007 at 04:58 PM
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Posted by: Spider-Man | Friday, April 06, 2007 at 02:43 AM
Speaking about "geotagging": do you know locr?
locr offers the ideal solution and makes geotagging exceptionally easy. locr uses GoogleMaps with detailed maps and high-resolution satellite images. To geotag your photos just enter address, let locr search, fine-tune the marker, accept position, and done! If you don't know the exact address simply use drag&drop to set the position.
For automatic geotagging you need a datalog GPS receiver in additon to your digital camera. The GPS receiver data and the digital camera data is then automatically linked together by the locr software. All information will be written into the EXIF header.
Use the "Show in Google Earth" button to view your photos in Google Earth.
With locr you can upload photos with GPS information in them without any further settings. In the standard view, locr shows the photo itself, plus the place it was taken. If you want to know more about the place where the photo was taken, just have at look at the Wikipedia articles which are also automatically assigned to the picture.
Have a look at www.locr.com.
Posted by: Tom | Monday, April 23, 2007 at 03:42 AM