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Google announces upgrade to Maps and Earth: First step, offline mode for mobile
By Tim Conneally
2012-06-06
Google on Wednesday announced some upcoming changes to its geospatial products Maps and Earth, which promise to greatly improve the user experience with the two services.
These changes will include more "Street View" maps for areas where there's no street, an expanded presence of Google's DIY mapping tool Map Maker which will be available in South Africa, Egypt, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland, and greatly improved 3D aerial imagery in Google Earth.
For iOS and Android-based mobile devices, changes will be on the way very soon. First, Google will officially roll out offline mode for Google Maps. This feature was revealed last July in Google Labs, just two weeks before Google announced it was shutting down the Labs section entirely. Over the next few weeks, users will be able to use Google Maps without a data connection in more than 100 cities across the globe.
This connectionless feature was one of the most outstanding components of Nokia Maps and Drive, as we saw with the Nokia Lumia 900. Users could have the same experience disconnected as they could with a data connection, an extremely valuable feature when traveling abroad or when under data cap constraints.
Detailed: http://betanews.com/...ode-for-mobile/
By Tim Conneally
2012-06-06
Google on Wednesday announced some upcoming changes to its geospatial products Maps and Earth, which promise to greatly improve the user experience with the two services.
These changes will include more "Street View" maps for areas where there's no street, an expanded presence of Google's DIY mapping tool Map Maker which will be available in South Africa, Egypt, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland, and greatly improved 3D aerial imagery in Google Earth.
For iOS and Android-based mobile devices, changes will be on the way very soon. First, Google will officially roll out offline mode for Google Maps. This feature was revealed last July in Google Labs, just two weeks before Google announced it was shutting down the Labs section entirely. Over the next few weeks, users will be able to use Google Maps without a data connection in more than 100 cities across the globe.
This connectionless feature was one of the most outstanding components of Nokia Maps and Drive, as we saw with the Nokia Lumia 900. Users could have the same experience disconnected as they could with a data connection, an extremely valuable feature when traveling abroad or when under data cap constraints.
Detailed: http://betanews.com/...ode-for-mobile/
