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Paul Saxman and Marcello Camello discuss the latest developments in the Google Places API and answer questions from the audience:
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012Google Earth helps a little boy find his family after 25 years
Monday, April 23rd, 2012Article source: BBC
An Indian boy who lost his mother in 1986 has found her 25 years later from his new home in Tasmania – using satellite images.
Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He was travelling with his older brother, working as a sweeper on India’s trains. “It was late at night. We got off the train, and I was so tired that I just took a seat at a train station, and I ended up falling asleep.”
That fateful nap would determine the rest of his life. “I thought my brother would come back and wake me up but when I awoke he was nowhere to be seen. I saw a train in front of me and thought he must be on that train. So I decided to get on it and hoped that I would meet my brother.”
Architectural service firm, Asylum, uses Google Maps API for Business
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012Article source: GoogleMapsBusiness
This video is part of a series of customer stories showing how businesses use the Google Maps API for Business. This short film shows how the innovative architectural service firm Asylum are using Google Maps and Earth in their District 3D offering.
