Google Kills Location History Summary Dashboard
Google has dropped support for the location history dashboard. Alex Chitu first covered this explaining that the location history dashboard, that provides summaries of where you’ve been, has been discontinued…
Google Maps Mobile With Google Now Cards
Google announced on Google+ that Google Maps for iOS and Android now support Google Now like features.
If you have upcoming flights, hotel reservations, dining dates, and so forth, you will see the Google Now cards directly in your Google Maps app…
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Google Adds “Now” Content, Features To iOS Maps Apps
In October, Google started adding Google Now style cards to its PC Maps. Now, Google is adding some of those same features to its iOS Maps apps. If you update Google Maps for iOS and sign in, you can now see flight, hotel, and restaurant reservations from Gmail in Maps — and then search or…
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Google Maps: Click To Get Coordinates
When it comes to getting the longitude and latitude of specific locations, I am a junky. Weird, I know, but I use it often. I actually have a bookmarklet to grab the lat/long from the old Google Maps.
But with the new Google Maps…
Google Maps Wants You To Create Street View Images
Google announced that they want you all to create their street view photos for them using photo spheres…
Google Places For Business Adds Reviews Section
Google announced that Google Places for Business has added a new section for business owners to manage and respond to reviews left on their Google Maps business listings.
Google said:
Today…
Google Maps With Flight Directions
I was looking to drive from New York, where I work/live, to Toronto for a conference, so I went to Google Maps and inputted the addresses. Google Maps showed me this weird straight line from my office to my destination, heck…
Google Can’t Count Maps Reviews
Spotted via Mike Blumenthal, it seems Google is having a hard time counting the number of reviews on a Google Maps listing.
Google Maps In Store Views Ads
+Jeroen den Ridder sent me pictures of what appears to be ads within Google Maps Business Photos – you know, the instore views…
Pegman Returns To Google Maps & Google Makes A Big Deal Of It
One of the most annoying things about the new Google Maps is that it is missing basic and fundamental features that makes the old Google Maps essential. One such feature is the Pegman, that lets you easily zoom into Street View imagery…
Google Local Maps Spam Invades Knowledge Graph
Linda Buquet, a top contributor in the Google Local forums, posted a thread in the Google Webmaster Help forums complaining about a massive spam attack in Google that started working on August 22, 2013…
Ingress: Is Google’s AR Game A Stealth Local Data Effort?
I recently got a new Android phone and found a little card in the box advertising Ingress, the “massively multi-player location-based alternate reality game from Niantic Labs at Google.” Ingress had slipped past my notice despite Greg Sterling’s mention of it nearly a year ago….
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Google Highlights Local Services Areas Within Search Results
Mike Blumenthal noticed that Google is now showing and highlighting in the search results the service area businesses service directly in the map preview on the right side of the page…
Hebrew & Arabic For Google Maps For iPhone
Perfect timing, I am headed to Israel soon and I can get my Google Maps for iPhone fix in the native languages there. I can get it in Hebrew or Arabic, I can read Hebrew but not Arabic – but I’d prefer English anyway…
Google Maps Drives In More Predictive Search
Google announced new features being added to the new version of Google Maps. The big announcement is a yawn because the old version of Google Maps had this…
Google Transit Directions Added To XE10 Release
Google announced on Google+ a new update to the Google Glass software codenamed XE10. I got the update last night and this is one of the most limited updates Google released for Glass in a while.
But…..
Japan Tells Webmasters Not To Use Google Maps Over Disputed Territory
Fox News reports Japan has instructed their government authorities and state-run universities to not use Google Maps on their web sites because of a conflict over disputed territories. The territory is Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea and Ap…
Google Local Showing Review Removals To Submitter
Google is now showing the individual who submitted a review on Google Local if the submission was removed…
Google Wants Feedback On Custom Maps
Abby from the Google Maps team posted in the Google Maps Help forum asking Google Maps users who are interested in custom maps to sign up for a research study.
Abby said if you use My Maps and Maps Engine Lite you may be interested in learning about a…
Weird Google Maps iOS Transit Directions Bug
A Google Maps Help thread has a bug report from two different iOS users with the transit directions in the new Google Maps app.
In short…