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Google Maps Hacks by Simon Weckert – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/05

This is from almost 2 years back, so I wonder if the physical and virtual Google Maps spoofing still works.

Via:

–jeroen

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Guidelines for representing your business on Google – Google My Business Help

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/17

For my link archive: [WayBack] Guidelines for representing your business on Google – Google My Business Help

–jeroen

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Justin O’Beirne – interesting comparisons of various Maps services

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/23

This is a reminder to myself to check out [WayBack] Justin O’Beirne again, as over the last years he posted various very interesting observations on the various Maps services.

Is Google Maps still years ahead of the competition? Why is that? Interesting topics that Justin covered in the past, for instance in [WayBack] Google Maps’s Moat How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps?

Via:

–jeroen

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Links for another crazy idea: superimpose lane availability indicators on Google Maps

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/29

ANWB can superimpose the lane availability indicators on their internap maps software.

Some links so I won’t forget:

–jeroen

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When +Google Nederland maps only fills one or part of the map tiles…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/18

I still have to do this every few weeks on all my desktop machines: [WayBack] When +Google Nederland maps only fills none or part of the map tiles… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+

When +Google Nederland maps only fills none or part of the map tiles at https://maps.google.nl, but https://maps.google.com works fine, then remove any gsScrollPos cookies from www.google.nl.

I need to do this every couple of days to keep maps.google.nl working.

Later I also found it can happen for YouTube, then did more digging for gsScrollPos and found a better workaround: [WayBack] Awesome Cookie Manager where you can just delete the gsScrollPos cookies from all sites in one go.

Even later I found out that this can be one of the causes for the WayBack machine giving an error 400 when archiving. A more common reason however is that many archived web-pages try to create cookies in the web.archive.com subdomain resulting in the same problem.

The cause seems to be the Great Suspender plugin which should be fixed by now, but might not automatically update to the latest version. See:

Pending a new Great Suspender release, below is a quick way to manually remove them if you are into SQL scripting for sqlite. It basically comes down to executing the below statement when Chrome is closed:

delete from cookies where name like 'gsScrollPos-%'

Edit 20231230: Awesome Cookie Manager source repository at [Wayback/Archive] Phatsuo/awesome-cookie-manager: Awesome Cookie Manager.

--jeroen

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Google Local Guides Nederland after G+

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/02

For my information archive as G+ died:

From the (unarchived, but disappeared) Is er al iemand een slack kanaal gestart waar we als localguides heen kunnen?

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Local Guides Connect – Help Desk – Local Guides Connect

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/01

Reminder to self: Local Guides Nederland moved their [WayBack] G+ community over to [WayBack] Local Guides Connect – Help Desk – Local Guides Connect which is part of [WayBack] Local Guides Connect and powered by [WayBack] Powered by Lithium | Lithium.

Since that is not part of any other social media platform I subscribe to, I will likely only see new stuff when I actively go to that place: hopefully that is more than once a year.

–jeroen

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Local Guides Connect – Big news about reviews: now they’re worth 10 point… – Local Guides Connect

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/18

Reminder to check if it already rolled out on my smartphone: [WayBack] Local Guides Connect – Big news about reviews: now they’re worth 10 point… – Local Guides Connect .

It seems to work both on mobile and on maps.google.com/localguides/home

–jeroen

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When you loose your Google Guides level, still can post reviews, but do not have access to the forums any more…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/11

Via a private share: If you ever loose your Google Guides level for no apparent reason, still can post reviews, but cannot post to the Google Guides forums, then just mail Google. They can usually fix the situation.

–jeroen

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Where am I?

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/03

Google is smart; you can ask it https://www.google.com/search?q=what%27s+my+location

This is accurate enough for many uses (it’s off for a couple of kilometers):

curl "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/browserlocation/json?browser=firefox&key=AIzaSyDBgL8fm9bD8RLShATOLI1xKmFcZ4ieMkM&sensor=true"

Some links about the above API:

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] I need help; I want to know the geographical location of the place where I am…

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