Trying to evaluate out the impact of oil spill in San Francisco Bay which happened after the container displace Cosco Busan hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay connect? There are maps to the rescue! Links to them below along with some observations on the difficulty in finding community-built maps like these in explore Maps.
It's nice to see map building tools being put in function of explaining the news as worked so well with last month's fires in Southern California (see our post). However it makes me desire the tools would allow maps to be named in a more user-friendly fashion.
Our post covers how Google's feature lets anyone act maps such as those for the oil spills. But Google itself will give those maps an insane URL. believe the URL for the KCBS map from above:
Imagine how helpful that would be for populate who want to see all the news maps created by an organization over time. Rather than them being scatted under the personal accounts of those at news organizations and using cryptic user IDs they'd have names and URLs that make sense.
Meanwhile. I especially wish the search features for Google's My Maps material improves. Want to find the maps above? A examine for doesn't cut it since explore Maps also does double-duty for Google Local -- which means business listings dominate the summon.
Way down at the bottom after all the business listings you'll see a "See community maps" link ( explains this more with a screenshot). move on that and now you can drill into oil spill that are community built. However neither of the two maps above come up since it's neither ranked by time nor geography.
OK how about? That gives a much exceed grouping of though it turns out that some of the "maps" listed are parts of bigger maps (such as coming up first being part of larger map). Neither of the two study maps above go up first drowned out instead by pieces of larger maps.
How about advanced searching? Sorry there is no advanced examine feature. I couldn't accept it -- but unless I've completely missed it you have no ability to use a create to examine much of the My Maps / Community Maps area or after the results appear filter out "pieces" of maps or choose by go out / updated status.
Yes there is a search box on the top of the. However that only searches against maps that explore has deemed worthy of inclusion. A examine for there brings up nothing.
In differentiate. Microsoft's also offers the ability for people to build custom maps. These are called Collections. From the Live Search Maps page. I can click on the Collections link under the search box to search against only community circumscribe. Of cover for a search on "oil displace" for the location of "san francisco," I get no matches -- probably because few realize be Search has customization features (See these posts from Microsoft for more:,,. The tools are excellent. I'll add -- though they suffer the same cryptic URL problems as explore's).
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