Google maps using Smugmug data?

DJ-S1DJ-S1 Registered Users Posts: 2,303 Major grins
edited May 5, 2007 in The Big Picture
This was news to me. I haven't been geotagging my images, maybe for some of them I should be...:dunno

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  • cabbeycabbey Registered Users Posts: 1,053 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2007
    I think they started in late 2005 or so.
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  • DJ-S1DJ-S1 Registered Users Posts: 2,303 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2007
    Yeah, the maps feature was here. But if I read the article correctly, Google is now including user data, like images tagged at Smugmug, as search results for Google maps searches.

    So someone searches for churches in Albany, NY and one of the results is a Smugmug image of a church in Albany that someone has on their Smugmug site. This is new, no?ne_nau.gif
  • cabbeycabbey Registered Users Posts: 1,053 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2007
    DJ-S1 wrote:
    This is new, no?ne_nau.gif

    huh, for some reason I thought that smugmug page talked about it. But yeah, it's 'newish'... I'd say it's been around for a few weeks or maybe even a couple months now.
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  • NairbskiNairbski Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited May 5, 2007
    headscratch.gif I believe these are two different technologies we are talking about. There's geo-tagging in Smugmug, and then there is the new User Content for Google Maps. They are separate. Google is not pulling data from Smugmug for their user content search. What Google is doing is searching user content, and some of the content created by users has links to Smugmug.

    I was just messing around with Google's new user content, "My Maps" and it's very cool. What people are doing is creating their own map and linking spots to other sites like Smugmug. They give you the option to make your map public or private. If they are public, I believe google will include them in their search. Im still waiting for mine to show up in a search.

    Check it out. I created a map that has links to my photos at Smugmug. thumb.gif

    Nairb's Smugmug Places
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