Google Maps for Mobile adds voter information

With the U.S. presidential election less than two weeks away, Google announced a new multi-platform maps effort to simplify and centralize voting locations and registration information. According to an entry on the Official Google Blog, the online U.S. Voter Info mapping service enables users to enter their home address to determine the location of their respective polling place--mobile subscribers may obtain the same information via m.google.com/elections or by searching for the word 'vote' with their addresses on Google Maps for Mobile.

Google developed the U.S. Voter Info site in association with state and local election officials, the League of Women Voters, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Voting Information Project. The web services giant said it will seek to stimulate further political participation by opening the polling place data to third-party sites and developers through an API created by its open-source engineering team.

For more on the Google voter effort:
- read this IDG article

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