Search - Google Maps Sneek Peek

Search - Google Maps Sneek Peek
*Google are testing and this may not be available to all web users...

Highlight the map area of interest by search.

Useful for Countries, Administrative, City Limits and even Islands.

Great for people who are looking but don't necessarily now the shape or administrative regions Zipcodes in the US, Postal Codes in Canada (but not UK postcode sectors).


Google are testing a highlighting method for the users search

London (Westminster London) is automatically highlight when users do a search on google.com

sources:
http://searchengineland.com/google-adds-zip-code-outlines-to-map-one-box-77733
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-maps-onebox-outlines.html

No Street Names Map (OSM)

No Street Names Map (OSM)

This is a good map highlighting area that need attribution for streetnames in the OpenStreetMap data.

"Dave Stubbs built it as we have many features traced from aerial imagery"

**OSM have permission to do this with Yahoo aerial imagery.

Just shows the task ahead- capturing the data is one huge task, updating the attribute (points, lines, polygons) is another huge task.

See this Map with No Names

Slowly but surely this is getting updated, then the task of maintaining is another task in itself.

Want to help out?

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

New beginners guide.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide

Source:

http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=296