Google Maps Now Highlighting Borders Of Cities, Postal Codes & More

Google Maps has added a feature where it will highlight in a pink color the borders of a city, postal code or other borders based on your search. To see it yourself, go to Google Maps and search for a city name or even a zip code. You will see a pinkish highlight around the […]

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Google Maps has added a feature where it will highlight in a pink color the borders of a city, postal code or other borders based on your search.

To see it yourself, go to Google Maps and search for a city name or even a zip code. You will see a pinkish highlight around the border.

Google Maps Borderlines

Based on your zoom level, as you zoom out, Google will highlight the whole area, not just the borders, in the pink color.

Google Maps Highlight

Again, you can try it for searches like [Mountain View, CA] or postal codes like [10010] but certain borders are hard to make out, like those in New York City.

Hat tip to Google Operating System for spotting this.

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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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