Google releases My Maps

April 5, 2007 | Matt Marshall

Google is now letting you create your own Google Map, by adding placemarks, drawing lines to demonstrate a route you’ve taken, inserting shapes, photos and videos.

Called My Maps, it’s all explained here. You get a URL for each of your maps so you can share it with friends, and you can submit it to be included in Google search results, and place it on Google Earth.

This is just the latest move by Google to add searchable pages to its massive database.

Below is a map produced by someone who traveled across the U.S. Route 66, with commentary on history and photos along the way. Another example shows Google’s campus, pointing out the location of its dinosaur skeleton and its SpaceShipOne.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.