The latest on digital design trends and consumer behavior from Avenue A | RazorfishGoogle Maps Integrates Panoramio Geo-tagged Photos and Wikipedia
May 16th, 2008 by John-Alistair GeorgeTags: geo, google, maps, photos, tagging, wikipedia
Google integrated Panoramio’s Geotagged photographs and Wikipedia articles to Google Maps. Google purchased them in May of last year. The Wikipedia articles are pretty bland and as such useless. Nonetheless the overall feel is great and the interaction simple. It’s great to see them adding more open content to Google maps. To activate these options you have to select them from the “more” tab.
They also added Real Estate listings. You can activate this by selecting “Show search options” and selecting Real Estate.
On a final note, I think if they align themselves with some better and more open content providers, the usefulness of this tool will exceed their expectations. Adding / Updating mobile versions would also be a welcoming edition.
