Some Features
- Users can add locations to their own my maps (Local celebrities have contributed (Wangari Mathai, Churchill, and Julie Gichuru)
- Content can be added to maps by individuals such as photos of place, restaurant reviews, hotel information (no. of rooms, visa card accepted) and Wikipedia entries
- Photos that have coordinates can be over-laid
Business owners can add their business locations and details
- Collaborate users can share information and invite select others to contribute on parties, events, add maps and event-related information
- Privacy information can be designated as private of public (search engine accessible)
- Local websites can embed google maps by simply by adding some code
- Mobile phone same features for kenya also accesible via Google Maps for Mobile - like search, driving directions, show traffic, favorites, and my location
- Mapmaker: Tool can be enhanced with google mapmaker
- All these are Free
Other Mapping Events
- March 31 Skunkworks Tuesday at KCCT Teleposta Towers 4th Floor, from 5.45 pm. A talk by Dennis Karanja, Regional Director EA Sybase, a mobile phone application development company.
- More developer workshops being held today @Google
- Google will also sponsor Where Camp Africa on Saturday April 4
7 comments:
Oooh, I am green with envy. I've developed a strange obsession with social cartography lately and I'm dying to have a copy with a couple of people in the know.
This is really good stuff from the Google Kenya team!
Smart Kenyan Software entrepreneurs will be thinking of how to turn this into a money making opportunity...
e.g. Fleet management software that maps driver location based on GPS coordinates etc.
It's another "quiet big one" folks - just like the Smart Cards!
Tumwijuke: Kampala also well mapped by Google maps and the whole idea is for more people to contribute online
Maishinski: done
We’ll see how this develops. .certainly any business owner should get online and make sure he’s on the map for yellow pages searches.
Maishinski: GPS is already here... many tracking firms provide the service. Great for fleet management. Pricey but I think prices will drop as internet access becomes cheaper.
Definitely a good step forward
I wonder why the satellite images are not up to date. They are several years back while there have been a lot of new developments and changes.
Does this mean now we can have Streetviews and Birdseye views with this development?
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