Google mapping gets streetwise

As you know, Google Maps is the most popular online mapping service in the world, and it is adding new features for you recently. The web search giant, Google has launched the Street View, a new Google Map service that provides web users 360-degree, navigable photographic views of selected locations/streets. Besides, Google also announced a tool for independent software developers, the Mapplets. The Mapplets is a special flavor of a Google gadget that can embed Google Maps mashups in any web page. It can display a variety of information such as real estate listings and crime data as well as ways to measure distances between different points on the map. (read more…)