You can view maps in terrain or satellite and utilize GPS with altitude reading and position mapping features.
Maps: New hybrid view, same as Google Maps.
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In addition to this clear, clean, main view, Google Maps for iPhone simplifies other functions.
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Developers can also change the Google maps view to include information such as traffic conditions, and control camera positions in 3D.
The headliner: the addition of Google Street View for Google Maps.
Now you run the risk of a Google car driving by with a roof-mounted camera, it snapping your photo, the photo being uploaded as a Street View on Google Maps, a blogger noticing it, uploading it to their website, where it then goes viral, so the whole world can look at their computer screens and laugh.
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Perspective View: gives the user a closer view at the resort maps, facilitating navigation in real-time.
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The connected Audi MIB system powers Audi connect, which enables live updates of Google Earth imagery complete with Google Maps Street View 360 degree panoramas.
Flyover is Apple's take on the " birds-eye view" feature found on Bing Maps: you get a 3D render depicting an aerial view of large cities as if you were, you know, flying over them.
To change your view layer in Apple Maps you have to tap the lower right corner (helpfully curled over as if it were physical paper) to reveal quite small traffic, satellite and hybrid views among four other options.
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Over two months ago, Internet search giant Google acknowledged that in the course of collecting information for its Google Maps Street View project, its roving vehicles inadvertently collected data, such as bits of web pages and email messages, over public, unsecured Wi-Fi networks.
It seems the 315-year-old map was found by divers capturing Google Maps underwater street view images.
Using these, a pilot can view full-color terrain maps and virtual images of the landscape around them on displays that adjust as they move their heads.
After the user is prompted for his or her address, the Google Maps API fetches and incorporates dynamic maps and street view data of the user's hometown into the animated content of the video itself.
The app uses top-notch technology from Google Maps and Street View as well as geocoding APIs to make it seem as though Carole is really there, at the door, clad in fur and surrounded by snowflakes.
New features demoed for the first time today include a configurable home screen launcher, accelerometer integration in Google Maps' Street View, Pacman (which we can only assume will become the Solitaire of Android), and a new unlock UI for touchscreen-based devices.
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The company already has significant interests in location services through its Google Maps and Google Street View offerings.
The ICR partnered with Polar View in a trial of the maps to examine how satellite observations could help by gathering information on snow change in a timely manner for such vast circumpolar regions.
Mr. Agarwala started scrolling through the county planning department's map of parcel lines, turning to Google Maps to get a satellite view of streets that looked promising.
She was immediately taken with exploring the Google Maps app and swooping down into Street View, having never used it before for much more than driving directions.
Rounding out the feature list, the Maps application also includes pinch-out maps that let you see a globe view, and information cards for businesses and points of interest.
The Fly Delta app for iPad features a "Glass Bottom Jet, " through which customers will have the ability to view the ground below in a unique way that includes maps, social networks and internet content while connected to the Internet on any of Delta's more than 800 Wi-Fi-equipped aircraft.
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The app is missing some of the most useful features from the former iOS Maps app: Google's transit directions and street view images.
One of the most hyped additions to iOS 6 has been the Maps application, which includes Siri navigation, 3D building view and satellite imagery.
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Mountain View just pulled back the curtain on the next major release of Maps for desktops while offering up an advance look at the Android and iOS versions.
Google Maps headquarters is located in the idyllic-sounding Mountain View, California, but when I visited to discuss the future of mapping I was ushered into a windowless conference room named after a famous explorer.
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Street View cars, used to collect data for location-based products like Google Maps, mistakenly collected samples of payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
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Under the Polar View initiative, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) have been providing snow melt maps for Norway and Sweden, as well as snow cover maps for Eurasia, for the last 18 months.
Using satellite-based snow melt maps supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA) backed program Polar View, herders are able to view the depth of snow and judge where the best foraging spots are to take their reindeer.
Google's Street View project sent hundreds of vehicles to photograph city streets around the world so that people using Google Maps could see 360-degree images of the locations.
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