{"id":10201,"date":"2011-06-15T08:22:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T12:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=10201"},"modified":"2011-06-15T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:29:47","slug":"google-maps-returns-my-maps-as-my-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/google-maps-returns-my-maps-as-my-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Returns My Maps As My Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Plamen Barzev,\u00a0Nyagoslav Zhekov<\/a> and\u00a0Nikola Tsvetkov<\/a> (you gotta love Local, bringing users from all over the world together) all alerted me during the early hours of the morning that Google Maps has replaced<\/a> the My Maps<\/a> with the apparently very useful My Places<\/a>. My Places is a personalized view of every review AND map that a Google user has created.<\/p>\n

The ability to search My Maps had disappeared earlier in the year and it seemed<\/a> to me at least, along with the removal of user generated Maps from Places, that Google was minimizing the apparent value of user created geo-content.<\/p>\n

This new upgrade puts user generated geo content back into a very visible spot and seems to offer a well organized historical view of all of a given users most important Places over time whether reviewed or pinned on a map. The interface is spiffy and the organization clean and neat.<\/p>\n

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\nGoogle isn’t just adding the feature on the QT. They are making it very clear that a new feature exists and are alerting visitors to Maps about its existence. Very cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plamen Barzev,\u00a0Nyagoslav Zhekov and\u00a0Nikola Tsvetkov (you gotta love Local, bringing users from all over the world together) all alerted me during the early hours of the morning that Google Maps has replaced the My Maps with the apparently very useful My Places. My Places is a personalized view of every review AND map that a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t