Google Maps now comes with YouTube (officially)

Just a few short months after adding videos as an optional add-on in Google Maps, Google seems pleased enough with the feature to have built it into the popular mapping tool. By choosing the video layer from the "more" menu, which also houses photos and Wikipedia entries, users can now browse and watch YouTube videos that have been geotagged.

The feature is no different from the previous one except in presentation. Instead of pockmarking your map with little red dots, each video appears in thumbnail form. The interface has also been slimmed down to exclude the video information and view count, letting the player fit in a smaller amount of space.

(via Google Blogoscoped)

Google Maps now offers YouTube videos as an official part of the interface. To toggle it on just click the check box in the 'more' menu.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

[terminalblue]

its odd...i have geotagged at least 20 of my videos and not a single one of them show up

[grahdg]

this was rolled out back in July (without the addon/&thumbnail style).

[forever4now]

Cool idea! Always something new coming out of Google.

[loose_screw]

Creative!

[fredriclight]

I have hundreds of videos on YouTube. All are geo tagged, all have the city, town and state in the description, tags as well as the subject. Not ONE shows up on these maps, so there is clearly something else going on here.

[The_Outsider_409]

Would you expect your video to show up just because they are geotagged? Youtube has got millions of video for any specific location you choose. They've got pick 1 in thousands to show in their maps. They probably do this by ranking on popularity and ratings. Do your videos stack up?

[Brian]

Very interesting concept!