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Find local restaurants and businesses using Google India Maps

Hiren Pathak
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 As you might know that Yahoo & Google are currently competing for Indian Maps. Yahoo launched its "Yahoo India Maps". The map data is provided by MapMyIndia.com.
 
Somebody pointed out that Yahoo India Maps have search for local utilities (or businesses) like hotels, cinema halls, police stations etc. Which is true as you can locate these places on yahoo maps. But thats about it. You dont get any details about the business itself.
 
So being a google fan, I tried Google for the similar local search. As Google doesn't have different domain name for Indian maps, its sometime not clear whether you can do the similar local search for India as well or not.
 
So I went to maps.google.com and selected "Find Business". In the first box I entered "Restaurant" and in the second box I entered "Mumbai, India".
 
To my surprise, I found out local restaurants of Mumbai plotted on Google mumbai map.
 
 

 

You can take a look at the picture above. Its the same interface as you would see for Google USA or UK or Australia.

 

So then I clicked on one of the marker and what I saw was not the regular business details but a link to Google Earth community forum.

 

So after visiting that URL I found out that, these are the markers provided by Google Earth community. Google is fetching those latitude, longitude information from Google Earth and when you do the search, it plots them on the map.

 

Its pretty interesting as Google will get all these information from the user. Google is building its database from users. Even though currently google doesn't have local business' detail information, in future it might pull those details as well.

 

So if you compare Yahoo local and Google local for India, you would find that Google has more local business information as those data are provided by users.

 

Check it out if you can find the local business near you on google maps or not. 

 

 


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Our valuable member Hiren Pathak has been with us since Tuesday, 12 December 2006.

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