PC Authority speaks to Senior Engineer on Google Maps about the extraordinary state of the art in digital maps, content, and navigation. What’s next for Google?
At the Google Developer Day in Sydney Australia, PC Authority Editor Ed Dawson and Staff Writer David Field interviewed Lars Rasmussen, Google’s Senior Engineer on Google Maps. We discussed street-level photography, future digital mapping, navigation, Mapplets, and the bleeding edge technology that's newly announced.
Listen to the interview here.
Duration: 26 minutes.
Size: 31MB.
Format: MP3, 160Kbps, 44.1KHz.
Some key points covered in the interview:
- Google's (robot?) "Street Level Photography Trucks"
- Why Sensis map data isn't used for Google Maps
- Geographical mashups and community-created map content
- How users and developers can monetise new map content
- Mapplet technology explained in detail
- Location based services (LBS) and Google
- Adsense technology in Google Maps
- Off-road navigation and Google
- Google Maps on mobile phones
- The possibility of a "Google Maps Navigator"
Google Developer Day was chaotic, with back-to-back simultaneous presentations interspersed with talent-finding Google challenges. This explains the diverse mix of music that’s audible in the background (adding a strangely groovy vibe).