{"id":5466,"date":"2008-05-27T15:44:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T14:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/see-photos-videos-and-extra-data-in-google-maps\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:30:42","slug":"see-photos-videos-and-extra-data-in-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/see-photos-videos-and-extra-data-in-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"See photos, videos and extra data in Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/photomaps02.jpg\" alt=\"See photos, videos and extra data in Google Maps\" align=\"left\" \/>You can easily tell I&#8217;m a Google fan, at least from my frequent posts about the popular Mountain View brand and its tools (<a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/use-google-maps-to-check-the-weather\/\">Google Maps<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/load-google-reader-in-the-firefox-sidebar\/\">Google Reader<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-sky-available-on-the-web\/\">Google Sky<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/learn-all-the-secrets-about-gmail\/\">Gmail<\/a>). The thing is, I use Google products on a daily basis, meaning I often find new tools I didn&#8217;t know about and which in turn make me like Google apps even more.<\/p>\n<p>A good example is this feature I recently found in Google Maps. It may have been around for a while, but I got to test it only this morning and I loved it! I&#8217;m talking about the &#8220;More&#8221; button you can see on the top right corner of Google maps, with which you can access extra information about the area you&#8217;re currently viewing, namely photos, videos and Wikipedia articles.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see it for yourself? Then open up Google Maps and fly to any location you like. Now hover your mouse over the &#8220;More&#8221; button to enable Photos, Wikipedia entries or both. If you choose Photos, the map will display all the photos related to that area that are hosted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\">Panoramio<\/a>, a Google photo sharing service that allows users to geo-locate their pictures. If you enable the Wikipedia option, you&#8217;ll see Wikipedia logos all over the map, linking to Wikipedia articles written about that certain area. Both photos and articles open up on a separate window layered over the map when you click on them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/photomaps01.jpg\" alt=\"See photos, videos and extra data in Google Maps\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But if what you&#8217;re looking for is videos, you need to take a different route. After flying to your favorite location in the world, don&#8217;t use the &#8220;More&#8221; button but focus on the left sidebar instead. You&#8217;ll see some photo thumbnails, along with a &#8220;Explore this area&#8221; link. Click on it and you&#8217;ll get an extended sidebar with more photos thumbnails and yes! videos as well. Now click on any thumbnail on the map and you&#8217;ll be able to see YouTube videos about that area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can easily tell I&#8217;m a Google fan, at least from my frequent posts about the popular Mountain View brand and its tools (Google Maps, Google Reader, Google Sky, Gmail). The thing is, I use Google products on a daily basis, meaning I often find new tools I didn&#8217;t know about and which in turn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/see-photos-videos-and-extra-data-in-google-maps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;See photos, videos and extra data in Google Maps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2346],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-maps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336086,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions\/336086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}