Google Maps Improved with Photos

Today, Google Maps revealed another update for the web-based product to allow users to view photographs with businesses from every corner of the world. The photos are displayed for the businesses included in Google Maps and included in the popup that was designed to provide more information about a certain location. The images are uploaded only by the business owner and can be done for free.

"They say a picture is worth a thousand words, which is why we've added photos to Google Maps local search. Now you can compare the sea views and room interiors for beachfront hotels in Honolulu or drool over the dishes served at steakhouses in Boston. Google Maps also includes pictures of buildings, storefronts, signs, and logos-especially helpful if you're going somewhere for the first time. For a tourist trying to find the Sony Building in Tokyo, a photo of the building exterior is probably worth a *million* words," Jess Lee, Product Manager, Google Maps, sustained on the official blog of the company.

If you already registered your business to be displayed on Google Maps and you're now interested in publishing photos on the map, you should use this link to submit the images for publishing.

In this period, Google improved Maps several times with new features and more detailed imagery, proving users the company really aims to make the web-based products as powerful as the downloadable application Google Earth. As you surely know, the two similar solutions provided by the search giant are used for many goals besides the one mentioned by Google, to observe maps and Earth imagery, several clients reporting that Google's tools helped them monitor volcanoes' activity or other locations from every corner of the world.