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As announced on the Google Lat Long Blog last week, Google Maps has added a new Terrain map type that displays physical features and, quite frankly, is just dang pretty to look at. If you haven’t tried it out yet, search for Mount Everest, the Grand Canyon, Glacier Bay National Park, or any [...]

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In this crazy Web 2.0 world, it’s all about one thing: the user. It’s about what the user wants from your site, and what the user can contribute to your site. That’s particularly true about map sites - the world is a big complicated place full of users who are experts on the [...]

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The good news: here at Google, we’re constantly increasing map coverage internationally: pushing out new tile updates, adding geocoding/routing data, collecting local business results, etc. The bad news: it’s not easy keeping up with the coverage and remembering where we have what. I can barely keep track, and it’s my job.
So, [...]

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