Oh Where is Washington, NC? How to Fix a Google Map Error
Egregious mapping errors occur a lot less these days on Google Maps. While roads are still being lost or misnamed in New Jersey, we have seen no lost towns and misplaced communities like we saw in 2009 and 2010. And truth be told the problem with roads in New Jersey may be just a reflection of […]
Google MapMaker Update Summary: One Database to Rule Them All
Now that MapMaker is back online, I wanted to understand the recent changes to MapMaker in the bigger context, how the changes related to the Places for Business Dashboard the G+ Pages for Local and when it still makes sense to use MapMaker. I asked Dan Austin to write up his understanding of the changes from […]
Google MapMaker Back Online – What has changed?
Google MapMaker is back on line after having been down for several days. What has changed?
Commenter George noted that that it is once again showing SABs hidden addresses. Probably a bug.
The other obvious change is that it no longer is accepting custo…
Google MapMaker Going Offline for Upgrades
This was posted in the MapMaker (thanks to TC Treebles for the heads up) forums this afternoon. It is highly unusual for Google to take a product offline, even if temporarily, ever. The idea of getting rid of whacked out bots and having a single, authoritative single repository for all location data is significant. Planned Map […]
Step by Step Guide to Enhancing Multi-lingual Listings on Google MapMaker
Google has never fully supported multi-lingual listings in Places very well. At one point Google was suggesting that you create a separate listing in a different dashboard in the alternative language. Unfortunately Google was unable to keep those listings from merging and the practice was ultimately prohitibited. The current dashboard offers no real alternative. MapMaker […]
Microsoft Buys Nokia – What will become of Navteq?
Microsoft bought Nokia today for $7.2 billion dollars. Nokia, you will recall, bought Navteq in 2007 for $8.1 billion in what was hailed at the time as pivotal move by Nokia into location based services. But as Horace Dediu pointed out, by late 2012 Navteq had been losing about $1 billion a year for Nokia […]