by Playfuls Staff |
6th April 2007
Google expanded its popular mapping technology Thursday to allow users to create their own personalized maps complete with their own pictures and locations.
The new [more] features allow creators to share maps, giving them the possibility of creating localized maps of points of interest in specific neighbourhoods. Users can choose whether to make their maps public or private.
Maps can be further customized by specifying the scale of the map, the order the landmarks appear in the sidebar, and even the design of the landmark icons on the map. The maps can also be toggled between map and satellite views.
The Silicon Valley company is hoping the simplicity of the new features will generate millions of highly specialized maps to be stored in its search index.
Google Maps currently is the third-most popular map site, following AOL's Mapquest and Yahoo Maps.
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