The End of Google Maps Engine Causes Mass Confusion
UPDATE: Google Maps Engine API will be turned off on January 29, 2016. Are you ready? We’ve been following the announcement from Google that they are axing their Google Maps Engine product very closely and tracking the impact that it is having in the industry. The most viewed article relating to Google’s announcement appeared on ZDNet. The article was primarily aimed at those who understood what Google Maps Engine is/was and didn’t really attempt to clarify where this product stood in Google’s wide array of map related offerings. As a result, many people have misunderstood the announcement with some even […]
How to Get Your Web Maps to the Top of Google Search
After the positive feedback of our previous post 4 Ways to Increase the Visibility of Your Web Maps, which contained a section on SEO (search engine optimization) for web web maps, I decided that this is a subject that deserves its own post so we can really get into the details. SEO for web maps is particularly challenging because search engines use the text in a web page in order to index it and ordinarily web maps contain very little plain text. In this article I will be sharing some tips and tricks that will help your web maps achieve […]