Google Maps: Listing Guidelines – Good enough?

Lisa Barone of Bruce Clay picked up my reporting of the new Google Maps Business Listing Guidelines . She commented: Blumenthals doesn’t seem completely satisfied with the guidelines set out by Google because they leave too much wiggle room….. He’s right in that there really could be a lot more explanation to what Google will and will not …

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Google Maps now using TeleAtlas data exclusively

Google Maps has now switched their map data provision completely over to TeleAtlas from Navteq. Now the google Maps, the Google API and the Google Maps for Mobile all use the same underlying data. This switch was only a matter of time given Nokia aquisition of Navteq. Here is the announcement from Google’s Maps Guide …

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