Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Google Maps Australia Now Showing User-Created Photos from Panoramio

Recently noticed that Google Maps Australia is now displaying user generated photos alongside map search results. Some of these photos are sourced from photo searching/geo-tagging tool Panoramio, which Google acquired last year. Cool feature - see below

And with Australian geocoded photos overlaid over a Google Map:


There's a fair amount of Australian user content that Google Maps Australia could index from government and user generated content - weather, videos, audio etc