Business - Written by Jeff DeChambeau on Monday, May 26, 2008 16:30 - 1 Comment
Nifty New Google Maps Feature
I was just loading up Google maps to figure out where to meet a friend when I noticed a new feature: community uploaded photos, and Wikipedia location tagging.
Here’s how it looks:

What’s really neat is how well the Wikipedia information syncs up with the map, it also provides a pretty nice summary of nearby notables:

While this kind of mash-up is by no means new, seeing it right on Google’s image search — as opposed to a third party site — is very cool, and is a big step for mash-ups towards mainstream consumption.
Apparently though, my neighborhood is a cultural wasteland, as there’s not a single Wikipedia entry or uploaded photo anywhere to be seen. Hopefully that’s not the case and this feature just isn’t completely rolled out yet.
Probably not, though.
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This phenomenon will explode once mobile phones with GPS (like the new BlackBerry Bold) automatically begin geotagging photos that are taken with them.
PlanetEye.com is an example of a site that is playing towards this trend.