Google Floor Plans

[Erin White]

We uploaded ours last summer and they're now visible in Gmaps. We've had
floor plans on our website for many years so figured this wasn't much
different.

The big caveat here: the floor plans are only visible on the Google Maps
app for Android. I'm not sure if there are plans to move these to
maps.google.com or other mobile platforms, but this is kind of a bummer.

That said, if you're curious, look us up on your Android phone - the
functionality is pretty neat.

Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave., Richmond, VA 23284

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Erin White
Web Systems Librarian, VCU Libraries
804-827-3552 | erwhite at vcu.edu | www.library.vcu.edu


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Thomas Dowling
<thomas.dowling at gmail.com>wrote:

> We uploaded our floorplans back in November and they still haven't
> appeared online.  Maybe that's Google's built-in security plan.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Amanda Izenstark <amanda at mail.uri.edu>wrote:
>
>> We wanted to do this, but being a state institution, we were advised by
>> the state's department of administration that this would pose a security
>> risk, as it would make obvious the locations of public computers,
>> collections, etc.
>>
>> Certainly any member of the public could come in and determine these same
>> things in a matter of moments, but our request to do this was denied.
>>
>> I hope you have better luck than we did!
>>
>> Amanda Izenstark
>> Reference & Instructional Design Librarian
>> University of Rhode Island
>>
>>
>>
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>> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 4:04:18 PM
>> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Google Floor Plans
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>> Has anyone implemented Google Floor Plans? What were the legal
>> wranglings you had to deal with?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jason Paul Michel
>> User Experience Librarian
>> Miami University Libraries
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