Dec 13 2012, 2:43am CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Apple's low point this year was for sure the Apple Maps disaster. iPhone customers found tons of bugs and wrong information in the first version of Apple Maps. Consumers were calling on Google to...
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Source: PC Magazine
A similar scenario happened over the weekend in San Francisco when the routing took me to the completely stopped Embarcadero. I used my street smarts and avoided it. This second route is a well-known and us ...
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After visiting the Grand Canyon and capturing imagery using nifty Street View camera backpacks , Google is taking a trip to the Galapagos Islands to capture the scenery and wildlife and is partnering up with the Charles Darwin Fo ...
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Google has followed in the footsteps of Charles Darwin to gather images of the beauty and biological diversity of the Galapagos Islands for the Internet titan's online maps. This true-color NASA satellite image release ...
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Google today announced that it has been taking its Street View Trekker – the compact backpack version of its Street View cars – and its underwater Street View cameras to the Galapagos Islands and that it plans to make these imag ...
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Apple's low point this year was for sure the Apple Maps disaster. iPhone customers found tons of bugs and wrong information in the first version of Apple Maps. Consumers were calling on Google to release a Google Maps app. Now it is here.
The Google Maps app shows more map on screen and turns mobile mapping into one intuitive experience. It’s a sharper looking, vector-based map that loads quickly and provides smooth tilting and rotating of 2D and 3D views. The search box at the top is a good place to start—perhaps by entering the name of a new and interesting restaurant. An expandable info sheet at the bottom shows the address, opening hours, ratings and reviews, images, directions and other information.
At the heart of this app is our constantly improving map of the world that includes detailed information for more than 80 million businesses and points of interest. Preview where you want to go with Street View and see inside places with Business Photos to decide on a table or see if it’s better at the bar. To get you there, you’ve got voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation, live traffic conditions to avoid the jams and if you want to use public transportation, find information for more than one million public transit stops.
The new Google Maps app is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch (4th gen) iOS 5.1 and higher, in more than 40 countries and 29 languages, including Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. Please note some of the features mentioned in this post aren’t available in all countries.
You can download Google Maps App for the iPhone on iTunes free.
Luigi Lugmayr
Luigi Lugmayr (Google) is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years
experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting
world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into
vibrant technology magazine.
Luigi can be contacted directly at ml@i4u.com.
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