Google Geonews: Street View in Mobile Browsers, Google Maps API Gallery, and more

Fri, 2012/10/05 - 07:20 — Satri

Here's the recent Google-related geonews in batch mode.

From official sources:

Google announced Street View comes to Google Maps on your Mobile Browser: "Starting today, use Street View on your mobile browser to check out a new shop across town or get a feel for the ambiance at a restaurant before you arrive. To use Street View on your mobile browser simply go to maps.google.com and search for a location. Then click the “pegman” icon at the bottom right of your screen to access Street View."
Google also launched MoreThanAMap.com to showcase uses of the Google Maps API
Google's Ed Parson chimes in on the Apple Maps woes: "[...] the bigger issue is the lack of a true geocoded search index of places and the search algorithms that sit around it. Local search is in many ways what makes smart phones smart, because the users location and the location of things around them provides a set of contextual pointers to relevant information."
There's traffic estimates now available for enterprise customers in the Google Maps API
Yes, there's new imagery, including new 45deg imagery for 51 cities

From other sources:

Slashdot ran a discussion named Google Glass, Augmented Reality Spells Data Headaches, with Google Glass being the topic of our current poll (right hand side column)