Posts Tagged ‘Maps Street

Google has been granted a quite interesting patent for "Claiming Real Estate in Panoramic or 3D Mapping Environments for Advertising". The company filed the patent back in the summer of 2008. The abstract reads: Techniques for identifying groups of features in an online geographic view of a real property and replacing and/or augmenting the groups [...]

AOL’s MapQuest has announced the launch of "360 View," a feature that may remind Google users of Google Maps Street view. For now, it’s available for 30 cities and 15 suburbs in the United States, with more on the way. "We have studied our industry, gleaning tidbits here and there, and polled our customer base [...]

According to the Financial Times, Google is in talks with estate agents in Britain to launch an online property portal for the UK, similar to one that already exists in Australia. Through that one, agents list properties and show pictures from Google Maps Street View. FT cites Douglas & Godon (an estate firm) commercial director [...]


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