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Parcel Map Data Added To Google Maps

Posted by: Tim Halbur

24 October 2009 - 7:00am

GIS folks are Twittering about this new addition to Google Maps. Blogger Joe Francia talks to Michael Jones, Google's chief technology advocate, about what the new data means, and where it's coming from.

"Jones said it was truly nothing more than improving Google's ability to provide more accurate geocoding. When I discussed the notion that it was integrated so as to increase potential ad revenue from the real estate industry, he dismissed that notion. He conveyed that real estate was a narrow audience in terms of specific searches for commercial or residential information and that was not the intent."

Full Story: Google's Michael Jones on Google Map's Parcel Layer
Source: All Points Blog, October 21, 2009
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