Ellimist Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 (edited) In sfarsit.Google Maps announced it will roll out offline maps for mobile, a new Street View camera and is improve the 3D capabilities of its maps via arial data.Users can look up a map in advance, and select to "make available offline," maps will indicate how much data this will take, and the map automatically downloads to the device. If your device has a compass you can orient without having to have 3G or WiFi running. Google called this a benefit of building its own basemap. There was no firm date set, but the company said it is "coming soon to Android."Luc Vincent, who began Google Streetview as his 20 percent project, described how the company has expanded Streetview to include tricycles, snowmobiles and trollies that has let it show views of everything from university walkways to art museums. Today he showed off a human-mounted Streetview camera that hooks on the back, connected to an Android phone, to film places like the Grand Canyon and castles.But the big news was 3D. Google is improving the ways its 3D views are shown by mounting cameras on airplanes show from multiple angles, and reconstructing the images to create textured meshes that let it render 3D scenes.At its developer-focused WWDC conference next week, Apple is widely expected to announce that it's ditching Google Maps in the next version of iOS in favor of its own system, complete with 3D maps. Which could explain why Google is making big announcements itself ahead of its Google IO conference at the end of the month.The event kicked off with Brian McClendon, who runs Google's geo group, giving a lengthy history of Google's mapping products and describing its three principles: comprehensiveness, accuracy and usability. He noted that today, 75 percent of all people in the world can see their homes in high resolution, and Google has 187 countries and 26 million miles of roads mapped with driving directions. And of course, it even has indoor maps now, to help people navigate subway stations and cavernous casinos.Source:http://gizmodo.com/5916207/new-google-maps-offline-mobile-access-and-more-updating-live?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflowEDIT// More: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/06/google-next-dimension-of-maps-liveblog/ Pare impresionant, un fel de Bird's eye oferit de Bing Maps. Edited June 6, 2012 by Ellimist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
