Google Maps Adds Wikipedia Entries, Geo-Tagged Photos

What won't Google do with its maps? Tuesday, if you went to Google Maps, you would have found a "More" button between the "Map" and "Traffic" buttons. Click on it, and you can, as you see to the left, tick checkboxes labeled "Photos" or "Wikipedia."

Ticking Wikipedia will add Wikipedia tags (W) to your map, that you can click on to get more information about the site. See the map image with this story.

Tick the "Photos" checkbox and you'll see the above, the map populated with geo-tagged photos provided by Panaramio. Click on a picture, and of course it expands (click the above map for an example).

Any suggestions for things that Google should add to the "More" button? The more data Google adds to their maps, the less reason anyone needs to go to Mapquest or Yahoo! Maps.

Source: By Tech Ex

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Posted May 14th, 2008 by admin_huliq

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