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"The major cities like London, Manchester and Liverpool I thought would be a safe bet for odd-shaped buildings," she said, "and being from Yorkshire I knew that would be a good place for fields and hedgerows"

The letter D, from White City, London

The Google Maps alphabet UK: an A to Z of the British Isles-C-

She spent five hours per day for three days using the satellite view on Google Maps to hunt down perfect images representing all 26 letters

The letter C, from Normanton on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire

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Rachel, who reckons her previous studies in A-level art and archaeology helped her to race through the task, said a combination of perseverance, knowledge and luck were key to her success. She said: "I did a lot of scrolling around on Google just waiting to find the right shapes..."

The letter B, from Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire

The Google Maps alphabet UK: an A to Z of the British Isles

Injured picture researcher Rachel Young, 25, of Barcroft Media, found all 26 letters of the alphabet on Google Maps in just 15 hours

The letter A, from Leigh, Kent

Simultaneous Searches in Google Maps

Now it's possible to see the results for multiple searches in Google Maps or you want to quickly switch to a recent query. Google Maps displays at the bottom of the page a list of recent searches and each layer of search results can be enabled independently. Google Maps uses different colors for the markers so you can differentiate the results

Google becomes more local

You're constantly looking for things in your neighborhood, whether it's [restaurants in zurich] or a new [dentist in houston]. Or anything else , If you specify your location in your query, Google maps often show your results on a map. But Google maps noticed that much of the time users make simpler searches, like [restaurants] or [dentist].

Google maps likes to make search as easy as it can, so they just finished the worldwide rollout of local search results on a map, which will now appear even when you don't type in a location. When you search on Google and will guess where you are and show results near you.


How Google maps know your location?, they match your IP address to a broad geographical location. You can also specify your likely location using the "Change location" link on the top right corner, above the map. Google maps try to make our guesses as good as they can be so that whether you're shopping for [sporting goods] or [flowers], or looking for your [bank], or the [post office], you can just say what you want, and Google maps try to find it right where you are. You can also search for specific stores or street addresses near you, like [cornelia st cafe] in New York, for example.



Or [111 8th ave] in New York.

Find Custom Maps-president birth places

The results provided by Google Maps are diverse: locations, addresses, local businesses, web pages, directions. Google Maps indexes pages that contain geographical content and it sometimes includes them in the list of search results.

Until recently, Google Maps only pointed to items from custom maps and geo-feeds, but now you can find the maps in the list of results. For example, a search for [president birth places] returns a map that shows where each president of the US was born.





You can restrict your search to custom maps and GeoRSS feeds by clicking on "show search options" and selecting "related maps". The index includes the public maps created from the "My Maps" interface.

Google Maps tries to go beyond basic queries like "pizza in ny" by using the web index. Google LatLong gives some examples of complicated queries that return useful results: bridge collapse in MN, falafel carts in nyc. Unfortunately, Google Maps has a very basic understanding of queries and can't always differentiate a general query like "places to go in London" from a search that asks for directions.