Google Maps South Africa
As of Wednesday, Google Maps will now have detailed maps of many South African cities and towns, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and East London. This will give you access to a ton of information about our cities such as maps, directions and business information in certain areas; and you will be able to do this through any web browser or via Google Maps for mobile on certain mobile phones.
Stephen Newton, country manager for Google South Africa said: “Google Maps is an valuable addition to the list of products that we’re launching specifically for South Africans, given the market’s importance to us. Google Maps isn’t only about searchable, digitized maps helping you to find a local place, service or product. Our goal with Maps is to make information with a geographical dimension available to everyone and to allow users to update the maps and develop on top of them. We believe more accurate, representative local information can greatly improve the breadth of information available about a given area and in turn can bolster tourism and business investment.”
Having the ability to access this kind of information from your PC or phone makes it so much easier to access location based information such as businesses, resturaunts or other services. This also allows businesses to add themselves giving Google more data and allowing businesses to promote themselves. Now I can’t wait for some sort of augmented reality application that will allow users to point their phone at a shopping center and the application giving them the stores inside and where they are. We can only hope.
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