Google Floor Plans

[Wisniewski, Jeffrey A]

Ditto for us, except we're at 3960 forbes ave., pittsburgh pa 15260

Jeff

Jeff Wisniewski
Web Services Librarian
University Library System
University of Pittsburgh
jeffw at pitt.edu
412-624-4050
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From: Erin White <erwhite at VCU.EDU<mailto:erwhite at VCU.EDU>>
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Date: Friday, February 15, 2013 12:26 PM
To: "WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>" <WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Google Floor Plans

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<http://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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On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Thomas Dowling <thomas.dowling at gmail.com<mailto: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<mailto: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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From: "Jason Michel" <micheljp at MIAMIOH.EDU<mailto:micheljp at MIAMIOH.EDU>>
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Google Floor Plans

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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