{"id":534,"date":"2010-11-18T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2010\/11\/18\/going-farther-with-google-maps\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:49","slug":"going-farther-with-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2010\/11\/18\/going-farther-with-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Farther with Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 400px;height: 254px\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_BaWbFC5UA2s\/TOVf7O1Mq_I\/AAAAAAAAGck\/aQs-752n6Jk\/s400\/GoogleMaps.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Hi! I\u2019m Pete Ramsey, one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/staff\/index.htm#reference\" target=\"new\">Reference and Instruction Librarians<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/\" target=\"new\">Langsdale Library<\/a>. I joined UB in August this year, and have been enjoying my work here very much. You may have seen me at the reference desk, in your class offering <a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/libraryinstruction\/index.htm\" target=\"new\">library instruction<\/a>, riding my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/template.cfm?page=3820\" target=\"new\">bicycle to campus<\/a><span style=\"font-style:italic\"><\/span>, or playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/template.cfm?page=2773\" target=\"new\">indoor soccer<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/template.cfm?page=98\" target=\"new\">Recreation and Wellness Center<\/a>. If you see me, say hi! I\u2019d love to get to know you.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I taught a class how to use Google Maps (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\" target=\"new\">http:\/\/maps.google.com<\/a>) to build a collaborative class map. Google Maps is a map service you can view on an internet browser, and is also one of my favorite websites. As it turns out, a lot of the information we use every day is place-specific. In other words, new information either comes from one geographic place, or information we already have is only useful in one place. Google Maps is one of the best resources I can think of for getting to (and using) place-related information.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Some of the things you can do with Google Maps include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get driving, walking, cycling, or public transit directions from one place to another. You can even choose between different recommended routes or click on &#8220;traffic&#8221; to see current travel conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Use &#8220;search nearby&#8221; to find businesses near an address. I use this when looking for food by cuisine (pizza, Chinese food, etc) or for businesses I need (Kinkos, Post Office, etc).<\/li>\n<li>Zoom to the street-level photograph of an address, to see what an unfamiliar place looks like from the ground.<\/li>\n<li>Search for user-submitted photos and videos near an address by clicking on the &#8220;more&#8221; button and selecting those options.<\/li>\n<li>Look up Wikipedia articles that relate to specific places the map using the &#8220;more&#8221; button.<\/li>\n<li>Search for a new home or apartment using the &#8220;real estate&#8221; option under the &#8220;more&#8221; button.<\/li>\n<li>Log in to create your own maps and share them with friends<\/li>\n<li>And a whole lot more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For video tutorials on how to use Google Maps to do these things (and more!) visit <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/intl\/en\/help\/maps\/tour\/\" target=\"new\">http:\/\/maps.google.com\/intl\/en\/help\/maps\/tour\/<\/a>. You can also &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/contact\/index.htm\" target=\"new\">Ask a Librarian<\/a>&#8221; if you want one of the Langsdale librarians to assist you in your place-related information needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I\u2019m Pete Ramsey, one of the Reference and Instruction Librarians at Langsdale Library. I joined UB in August this year, and have been enjoying my work here very much. You may have seen me at the reference desk, in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2010\/11\/18\/going-farther-with-google-maps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Going Farther with Google Maps<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,94,405,71,45,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}