{"id":2160,"date":"2009-01-14T18:17:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T22:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2009-01-14T18:17:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T22:17:45","slug":"google-groups-for-maps-moved-to-new-forum-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/14\/google-groups-for-maps-moved-to-new-forum-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Groups for Maps Moved to new Forum Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted several weeks ago,\u00a0Google Groups for Maps was being moved to new Forum Platform. That switch has now taken place.\u00a0From the Lat Long Blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our Google Map Help Group now has a new home! You may have already heard of (or tried out) the\u00a0<a id=\"kt:s\" title=\"new Google Help Forum platform\" href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/new-google-help-forums.html\">new Google Help Forums<\/a>. Today, our\u00a0<a id=\"h-ds\" title=\"Google Maps help group\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps\">Google Maps Help Group<\/a>\u00a0will be moving to this new platform.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"Google Maps Help Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/maps?hl=en\">help forum<\/a>\u00a0is still an area for users to come together to discuss and share their knowledge of Google Maps and the Local Business Center &#8211; only now it has a new look. It&#8217;s integrated with\u00a0<a id=\"ixcv\" title=\"Maps Help\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/support\/?hl=en\">our help center<\/a>, which makes it even easier to jump into the forum while you&#8217;re browsing the help center. You can search for content across both the forum and help center articles as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/support\/bin\/topic.py?topic=13416\">&#8220;help&#8221; link<\/a> in the Local Business Center goes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/support\/bin\/topic.py?topic=13416\">help center<\/a> where they are offered a choice of going to the new\u00a0<a onclick=\"comboModuleTracker._trackEvent('u2u', 'topic=13416 hl=en');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/maps?hl=en\">Maps Help Forum<\/a>. This integration and new layout should make the forum easier to find from the LBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted several weeks ago,\u00a0Google Groups for Maps was being moved to new Forum Platform. That switch has now taken place.\u00a0From the Lat Long Blog: Our Google Map Help Group now has a new home! You may have already heard of (or tried out) the\u00a0new Google Help Forums. Today, our\u00a0Google Maps Help Group\u00a0will be moving &#8230;<\/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-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}