Archive for May, 2008
City Requests Removal from Google Maps
Saturday, May 31st, 2008The Minneapolis Star-Tribune today reports that the city of North Oaks, Minnesota, has requested that all street-level images of their community be removed from Google Maps.
Google says that no community has ever issued such a blanket request. This doesn’t surprise me - North Oaks, sometimes known as the ‘Forbidden City,’ is somewhat unique. All roads [...]
Web Sites, E-mail & Consistency - Oh My!
Monday, May 26th, 2008I was reading a magazine today and in many ads, service providers were listing both web sites and e-mail addresses for contacts. Great, huh? Small local landscape architecture firms, promoting themselves and doing the right thing!
Actually, there was one small hitch: A lot of these places/people would have their fancy business URL, then be listing [...]
