New York City has just launched a revamped webportal at NYCgo, which now offers an extensive database of events, restaurants, hotels, and other points of interest. All of these are tied into the Google Maps API, making it easier for visitors to quickly find things to do in their vicinity without having to hunt down their hotel’s concierge. The site will also include a listing of promotions and discounts, like the incredibly popular Restaurant Week, during which upscale restaurants offer meals at a flat (and heavily discounted) rate.
The city has also teamed with Google to create its new Information Center at 810 Seventh Avenue, which includes Surface-like map tables powered by the Google Maps API . Users will be able to browse through attractions and create travel plans which they can print on the spot, and can also apparently embed their travel itinerary into small tokens which they can use to virtually ‘fly’ through a rendered 3D version of New York City taken from Google Earth. For tech geeks this might be the first city where the visitor center is going to double as an attraction.
New York City isn’t the first city to go hi-tech – major cities like Washington DC and San Francisco also offer interactive maps and visitor guides.
For more details, check out the post from NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg here.
That’s awesome. I tend to love anything involving Google Maps.
google maps are infact so cool and helpful, i love the street view, especially on android app.
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Hey Sleepy TC losers:
Earthcomber did this years ago. ZZZZZ story idea. Why don’t you tell me about the exciting election of President Richard Nixon, Mr. timely.
Earthcomber rules. Google, and you, suck, respectively—but not necessarily in that order.
Great idea but seems like they need a little more bandwidth right now….
It’s so much better seeing a city do this vs. a YP type entity. Would love to get a list of all the major cities going high tech with map and local info.
Chicago would be a great city to have this also…
We are working on it…
Is there anything Google can’t do? I really don’t think so.
Is it just me, or does nycgo.com return a 404?
Yeah, looks like they’ve been having issues for the last few hours.
There’s a ton of versatility in Google Maps.
cheers
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And their down…
Ouch errors…
Cold Fusion will always make you wish you were dead while crying on the floor of a frigid server room..
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no kidding
NYC.com integrate both Google’s Streetview technology and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth on their website…you can visit any business in New York, find what is nearby, get an interactive map, see birds eye views of the location, and even walk around the neighborhood using Streetview. And best of all their website hasn’t been down all day. Which makes it even more useful!
To find wine and food events in New York (esp. for restuarant week) I always check out the LocalWineEvents.com site – always reliable – and free, too!
Who designed the website?
Its about time. A city site is exactly what google and ny need.
I can’t wait until all major cities world wide develop this new form of digital infrastructure. Besides visitors this sort of detail can help coordinate business traffic and analyze both local and distant real estate more accurately. justaskgemalto.com offers some good digital security traveling tips to coincide with hunting down hotels etc.
HUGE designed the website, a firm based in Brooklyn.
http://www.hugeinc.com
My hometown is NY. Anything to make NYC even better.
That is awesome