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I am a big fan of Google Maps. I like the way information can be spatially represented. But I also kew it was just a matter of time before the ads would start to appear.

Such is the success and uptake of Google maps by people making mashups (overlaying their info onto the maps) that the expected introduction of paid advertising that would also appear on local maps is about to arrive, as noted by Niall Kennedy in his blog post Google Maps to carry ads

One can only hope that the intrusiveness of pay per click style ads is not too great.

But of course the upside could be that the satellite views may not have the ads so therefore huge areas of the world that are not ‘mapped’ may be immune for a while yet!

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