The other night I was watching the “Ivory Tracker” episode of Shadow Force and they were making heavy use of small GPS tracking units hidden in contraband Ivory and tracking it’s location (and therefore the location of the smugglers) in Google Maps.
While they don’t mention the name “Google” or “Google Maps” or show anything with a Google logo on it, you can tell by looking at the map and the marker icons that it is a Google Maps page. They made a lot of use of the aerial imagery, being able to say that they are located at a specific house.
I am guessing they are using some online service to take the GPS tracker information and put it online so they can track the units, they didn’t go into detail about the background information.
