Google Maps Location Based Quick Facts: Knowledge Graph In Maps

May 15, 2014 - 8:24 am 0 — by
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Pegman Google MapsGoogle announced on Google+ that they have added a new section to the maps result for a location search named "Quick Facts."

This section looks very knowledge graph like and has some very quick information around the location you are searching for. Some of the information pulls from Wikipedia and some from data sources used in the Google Knowledge Graph.

Here is a picture of the results for the Western Wall in Jerusalem:

Google Maps Adds Quick Facts

Pretty cool and useful!

Forum discussion at Google+.

 

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