{"id":6434,"date":"2010-04-08T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2010-04-07T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:49:11","slug":"google-maps-2-map-provider-in-us-1-mapping-site-in-us-google-maps-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/08\/google-maps-2-map-provider-in-us-1-mapping-site-in-us-google-maps-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps #2 Map Provider in US- #1 Mapping Site in US? Google Maps API"},"content":{"rendered":"

This talk, The New Meaning of Mapping, was given last week by Michael Jones, Google’s Chief Technology Advocate, at theWhere2.0 conference<\/a>. Previously he was Chief Technologist of Google Maps, Earth, and Local Search and was originally responsible for development of the technology used in the creation of Google Earth. The presentation includes a number of interesting nuggets<\/p>\n

  • Google Maps is #2 mapping provider, Mapquest #3. #1 Mapping provider in the US is not Google Maps, nor Mapquest but the Google Maps API\n<\/li>\n
  • How do you make the Map a place of business? Need to move from lack of information, to information, to actionable information.\n<\/li>\n
  • More people use Google Earth on the iPhone than on the Mac\n

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    If you have any doubt about Google Mapping ambitions be sure to watch the chronological video of Street View driving to date at 12:08 into the movie. Google clearly sees Mapping as the place where business will take place going into the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This talk, The New Meaning of Mapping, was given last week by Michael Jones, Google’s Chief Technology Advocate, at theWhere2.0 conference. Previously he was Chief Technologist of Google Maps, Earth, and Local Search and was originally responsible for development of the technology used in the creation of Google Earth. The presentation includes a number of …<\/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-6434","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