Today’s update to Street View is a whale of a launch — literally! We’ve added imagery gathered by our Trike for several special attractions we’ve partnered with in the United States, including the SeaWorld parks. Of course, that includes photos of Sea…
With families coming together, the start of the ski season, and weekly shopping trips becoming acceptable, there’s a lot to love about the holiday season. What’s that? Gridlocked traffic? Fully booked hotels? Can’t find the perfect gift? Oh my, the ho…
We know that coupons are a great way for local businesses to drive customers to their stores – that’s why we created the option for businesses to add coupons to their Google Local Business Center listing back in 2007. Now, as the holiday shopping seaso…
At an event organized jointly by the United Nations and Google at Google’s office in New York, 80 United Nations delegates from more than 20 UN agencies, met with various Google product teams to explore how Google’s wide array of products and services …
This past Saturday, we launched the first ever mapping competition in Latin America during a live session on Map Maker at the Campus Party Mexico 2009. The competition officially kicked off at the event in Mexico city, where tech enthusiasts from all o…
Two months ago, we released the beta version of Google Earth 5.1. The 5.1 release focused on one of our most important features: performance. The power of Google Earth is the seamless, immersive 3D fly-throughs that give you a sense of …
It’s been a very busy week for the Street View team! Not only have we made Hawaii the 50th state to get Street View imagery but we’ve also been hard at work mapping other stunning locations around the world. Now you can explore around huge swathes of S…
Last month we asked you to submit nominations for places that you want our Street View Trike to visit. We were inundated with more than 25,000 suggestions across all categories, with university campuses making up 44% of all suggestions.Starting today, …
My wife and I moved out to New York last week, and we sure put Google Maps to use in our housing hunt. With Real Estate listings to help find a place, Street View to scope out the neighborhood, directions to help us find our broker, and local search to…
Name: Mihai Voiculescu (Cartograful)Day job: Web programmer at itbox.roRegion mapped: RomaniaUntil last month, Romania wasn’t on Google Maps. Users started a Facebook Cause and a Twitter Petition to get Google’s attention on adding Romania to the map. …
The days may have just gotten a little bit shorter, but that’s not going to stop the Google Transit team from working hard to add new agencies. Over the past few months, we’ve launched with several partners in many places all around the world.If you’re…
Since we announced the ability to see lots of real estate listings directly on Google Maps back in July, we’ve been working hard to make it even easier to use. As we’ve added new features and updated Google Maps, with things like brand new h…
Today the Google Maps team is rolling out a number of refinements to the look and feel of our maps, the biggest such changes since we first launched about 4.7 years ago. In that time we’ve been steadily adding details like walkways, address …
[Cross-posted with the Google Public Policy Blog]When disaster strikes in the form of a hurricane, earthquake, famine or flood, information technology can play a crucial role in coordinating a local or global response. Earlier this month, Google hosted…
Favorite Places was a project we launched a few months ago to celebrate local businesses and places around the world. This month we worked with a few travel editors and authors from Lonely Planet to share their favorite places in&nb…