Category: Google Maps

I’ve probably talked enough about Google Latitude shutting down, especially since I rarely used it. But the truth is, it seems like location services in Google+ is going to be a really big thing…

As we mentioned yesterday, Google is shutting down latitude – a product I personally didn’t use outside of just experimenting with it, but apparently has a loyal user base…

Yesterday we reported that part of the Google Maps App “upgrade” a few features went away. One such feature was easy access to offline maps…

Google announced a new version of apps for iOS and Android (version 7.0) that cleans up some features…

Jade Wang from Google’s local business team announced in a Google Business Help thread that if you see new categories in your business listings, please refrain from updating them…

Google has officially acquired Waze, or announced they have agreed to acquire them. Waze is a social mobile app GPS, mapping, directions application with a very dedicated and loving user base.

The company is Israeli based…

Google announced yesterday on Google+ a new Google+ Dashboard for businesses that manage their Google+ local page on Google+.
Jade Wang also posted about it in the Google Business Help forum explaining:

Moving is a stressful process for most businesses, adding onto that losing a lot of your data and confusing your Google Maps listing is something that gets added onto that.

But it seems like Google is trying to make that process easier…

In mid-June 2010, Google added blue dots to its maps that display user-submitted images, those blue dots seem to have disappeared for many Google Maps users.

You can still play with them over here but within the Google Maps user interface, for some, …

Jade Wang from Google posted in the Google Business Help forum an FAQs on what to do if you are having technical issues with your Google Maps reviews.

She answers 11 different questions related to this topic…

Spotted via Hacker News a site named geoguessr is an addictive guessing game that has you look at Google Street View imagery and you click on the Google Map to say where that image was taken from…

Remember when Google took over Zagat and then announced they are dropping the star reviews for businesses…

As we expected, Google introduced the new Google Maps interface and features at Google I/O.
The new maps are no longer a “static map” but now the maps are “immersively interactive” said…

Jane Wang from Google announced in the Google Business Help forums that you can now make a request for Google to move your businesses reviews from one listing to another…

Google Operating System reported that Google is completely redesigning and revamping the Google Maps user interface and design.

It is a complete overhaul of the design…