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There are some major updates to Google Maps, Street View, and Google Earth to know about – and the new and upgraded features ...
More changes are coming to Google Maps ... to Google Earth. Reports from the website 9to5Google indicate that users will soon ...
In 2011, Maps and Earth cataloged the massive earthquake in Japan, local businesses and museums joined Street View, and Maps went ... a $65 thousand prize for the top armchair explorer.
Amazon and Apple are competing with Google, which until now has had a near-monopoly in online maps, with Google Maps, Earth and Street View ... Google's top "Geospatial Technologist" is Ed ...
After some experimentation we reckon that Google Earth by default uses a horizontal field of view (HFOV) of about 60° and Google Maps uses a HFOV of about 35° for its ‘Earth’ view.
Google Maps is going to introduce a new “Immersive View for Routes” feature in select cities, Google announced at its annual I/O conference today. The new feature brings all of the information ...
Google Maps is getting sharper satellite imagery and more Street View content, while Google Earth will soon let users access more historical imagery. Starting this week, Google is introducing ...
Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia subduction zone, two pieces of the Earth’s crust slide against each other, building up stresses capable of unleashing a catastrophic 9.0-magnitude ...
The largest two-dimensional map of the sky over Earth ever created just got even larger and is now covering almost half the sky over Earth. The map created with data from a six-year-long ...
Joe McCallen, 63, has mapped 100,000 miles of road for Google’s immersive map ... first Street View model, which launched in 2007, was cobbled together into a bulky black top hat-like fixture ...