Google My Maps and ‘Social Mapping’

The image “http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/images/maps_results_logo.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.After core search, without question Google Maps (including Earth) is the company’s most successful and popular product. And lately Google has taken the product in very interesting directions.

Among the most interesting things Google has done with Maps was the launch of My Maps in April of this year. Since that time more than 7 million maps have been created according to Google. Then last month, Google introduced community editing and collaboration for My Maps. And today, Google is introducing comments and ratings for My Maps.

Google My Maps Comment Page

The rest of this post is at SEL.

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