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 […]
Barry Schwartz on January 19, 2012 at 1:43 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
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.
Based on your zoom level, as you zoom out, Google will highlight the whole area, not just the borders, in the pink color.
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 technologist and 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.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.