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Since April 2010, we’ve been testing and developing the Business Photos program, which gives users a virtual peek inside businesses through interactive 360-degree imagery. After hearing your positive feedback about how showing off panoramic views of …

It’s Fab Friday again! This week, we’ve got another Google Maps API Developer Relations screencast. This week, Andres Ferrate discusses the Google Places API Events feature:

In other video news, Tuesday during Maps API Office Hours, I had a…

In March, we shared news of a significant improvement over our previous 3D buildings in Google Maps, providing a much more recognizable view of thousands of important buildings around the world. Now, we’ve brought this enhanced 3D experience to Googl…

The latest 45° imagery update in Google Maps features new imagery for 8 international locations and 11 U.S. locations. This also marks the first time we’re publishing 45° imagery for France.Avignon, FranceThe city of Avignon is the first place in Fra…

Map of the Week: The Civic Crowd
Why we like it: A unique way of using Google Maps to initiate positive community action, this map is a great way to discover, share, propose, and appreciate citizen powered change.

The Civic Crowd uses Google Maps to …

Every year, millions of people pack their bags and head to far-off places to enjoy sites and cultures different from their own. While there, they snap photos to document their trip and share their excursions online. Yet none of these individual photos …

You can now visit the country of Ukraine through Street View in time for the 2012 European Football Championships. Located in the geographical center of Europe, Ukraine has many fascinating sites to explore.At more than 1500 years old, the capital Kyiv…

Cross posted on the Official Google BlogEvery year, 3.5 million people come to Israel to visit ancient sites that are holy to billions of people, to walk among the unique stone of Jerusalem, or to relax on the beaches of the Mediterranean. Inside Jerus…

Cross-posted from the Official Google and Google Green blogsSince 1970, people all over the world have recognized April 22 as Earth Day, an opportunity to appreciate and generate awareness about the natural environment. Here at Google we strive to do o…

As part of the changes shared on the Google Developers Blog today, the Google Maps APIs are transitioning to a 1 year deprecation policy, which has been revised to be clearer and shorter. Any Maps API that is deprecated between April 20th 2012 and Apri…

The Google Earth and Maps Imagery team has published another batch of aerial and satellite imagery. In this post, we’ll look at newly released imagery that reflects the themes of past, present, and future. 2011: In the U.S., federal and state taxes w…

Earlier this year we improved the uploader tool in Panoramio to make the process faster and more intuitive. Since then, members of the Panoramio photo-sharing community have been simply dragging and dropping their photos to the locations where they wer…

Map of the Week: Map of the Dead
Why we like it: This map is a highly creative and innovative use of the Google Places API and Styled Maps. Also invaluable tool for a “zombie apocalypse.”

When the impending zombie apocalypse is upon us the first…

Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog.

In April 2010, 89 million U.S. households returned a census form in which they answered ten basic questions. Once collected, aggregated, and published, the 2010 U.S. census provided rich insights into the …

Educators all over the world have used Google’s geo products to help students conceptualize, visualize, share and communicate information about the world around them.This summer, we will host two Google Geo Teachers Institutes: June 13 and 14, 2012 in …