Blog wrote:Advertisers are slowly discovering the potential of Google Maps, and some, like the Target store above (more at Google Sightseeing), are even enjoying some unexpected windfall. Poynter Online talks about realtors tapping into satellite imaging tools. Google Maps Mania is running a log on map hacks, some of them by businesses. Scavengeroogle is an armchair scavenger hunt based on the service - you too can have people looking for your brand landmark (like, again, the Target stores). Here's a how-to on integrating Google Maps into your website .
Now that's handy! And very... VERY Ironic choice on the part of Target
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Rooftop advertising is quite cool. not Very invasive.
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Wouldn't the signs have to be freaking huge? The best something like Google Maps will give you from what I've seen is a blurry outline of the building in question. Enough to tell what it is, but not make out anything really specific or detailed, like a sign with letters.
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General Zod wrote:Wouldn't the signs have to be freaking huge? The best something like Google Maps will give you from what I've seen is a blurry outline of the building in question. Enough to tell what it is, but not make out anything really specific or detailed, like a sign with letters.
It really depends on what area you live in. Google maps has insane resolution for some areas (mostly urban), but in some rural zones, good luck getting a picture at all.
Oh, and consider how big your typical Target store is. The signs are freaking huge.
Not exactly new. Signs have been put on roofs near airports for ages. That specific example is off the north end of runway 22R at O'Hare.
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I wouldn't think that the images wouldn't be up-to-date enough for advertising. The photos of the area that I live in are from around the late summer, early fall of 2003.(construction dating)
Yeah, rooftop advertising is common near airports.
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CelesKnight wrote:I notice that there appears to be an airport nearby. Methinks that the author has deduced the wrong cause of the sign...
O'Hare Int'l. Runway 22R. See prev post.
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