Wednesday, January 21. 2009

Bloomberg Announces NYC Go - Google Maps/Earth Based NYC Exploration Tool

Bloomberg announced the new site called "nycgo" and the new visitor's center (with touch tables using Google Maps/Flash and big screen 3D viewing on Google Earth, including new 3D model of the city) on the Official Google Blog. The whole program comes out of NYC & Company, the city's official marketing, tourism and partnership organization.

There are tools to restaurants and activities, send the information to your phone. You use a "interactive disks" (that look like CDs but lie on the tables) while building the itinerary on the tables and can then view it in 3D on the big screen. You just drop the disk on a platform and it plays. Multilingual staffers help users out.

This is the kind of thing that puts Google's technology out front and center for everyone to use. Besides, who would not want to play with a touch table for free in NYC (810 Seventh Avenue, between 52nd and 53rd Streets)?

Video below.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google at 14:14 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

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Haven't visited the center, but the website performed with notable sluggishness. Not sure what it offers beyond what is available elswhere on the Web in more attractive formats.

The blurb above seems like an advert for Google more than anything else.

#1 Gary Ostroff on 2009-01-22 08:55 (Reply)

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