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Hands-On With the New Google Maps
By Emily Price
mashable.com
May 16, 2013
[Videos]
Google unveiled a brand new look for Google Maps on
Wednesday. Redesigned from the ground up, the new Maps
can take you from space all the way inside a building,
and everywhere in between.
The new Google Maps will be available for the general
public starting Thursday morning (you can sign up to
request an invite to try it out, here). Along with other
I/O attendees I got access to the updated version of Maps
on Wednesday, and took the service on a test drive.
A Whole New Look
You can tell there�s something a little different about
Google Maps from the moment you visit the page. The map
itself is full screen, with a number of small thumbnails
at the bottom.
Rather than separate search from the map, you can search
using a small widget in the upper-left side of the
screen. Your last three searches automatically show up
(as long as you're logged in), and like before, you can
type the name of a specific location or generic search
term (i.e. "spaghetti restaurants") in the search box.
Results for your search are displayed as points of
interest on the screen. For instance, you can see that
there's a spaghetti restaurant near the park you�re
currently walking through, or by the theater at which you
plan to see a late-night movie. The map also highlight
restaurants reviewed by friends, as well as those that
are highly rated, in general.
You can select a business either by clicking on its name
in the search box, or on a pin on the map. When you click
on a pin, related roads and destinations appear on the
page, helping you plan your journey.
Info Cards
When you click on a business, Maps now brings up an info
card right below the search box. The venue's address is
displayed at the top of the card, along with its hours of
operation. To the right, you�ll find a navigation icon
for directions, a star icon to save the location for
later viewing, and the business� website URL and phone
number.
There's also a Street-View photo icon, as well as the
option to look up more images of a specific location.
When available, Zagat information for a restaurant is
also displayed below its basic contact info.
What's more, Maps learns your preferences as you search
for places, save venues and write reviews, ultimately
making recommendations tailored specifically to your
needs.
A Spectacular Vision
Images really shine in the Google Maps update. Clicking
on the satellite-photo icon on the bottom of the map will
bring up the Google Earth view of a particular area. You
can opt to check out Street View for most areas, and for
venues that support it, you can actually go inside some
buildings.
At the bottom of the page for any given location, Google
features a scrolling menu of images. There are single
images, as well as a series of images that you can click
through for a photo tour.
The images include those that Google has taken, public
images uploaded to Google+ and Picasa, as well as Photo
Spheres (a 360-degree photo typically of the inside of a
building) taken by Android owners.
Photo tours, in particular, get pretty interesting
because they�re user-generated, and are often of the same
location. A photo tour of MIT, for example, pulls up
several photos of the same building � each from different
points in the year. It's cool to see the same place
through the eyes of different photographers and phones.
Better Directions
Maps offers directions for a variety of different
transportation options � car, public transit, walking,
biking and air � that are displayed both in the search
box and on the map itself. The �best� route is shown on
the map by default.
For public transportation, you can visually compare trips
based on number of transfers, walking distance and total
travel time � a useful feature for anyone who has to deal
with public transportation on a daily basis, and wants to
make sure they're taking the quickest route possible.
Want to try out the new Google Maps? You can sign up to
participate in Google' Maps preview, here.
Mashable screenshots; images courtesy of Google Maps
More at:
http://mashable.com/2013/05/15/google-maps-hands-on/
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Om Shanti
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By Emily Price
mashable.com
May 16, 2013
[Videos]
Google unveiled a brand new look for Google Maps on
Wednesday. Redesigned from the ground up, the new Maps
can take you from space all the way inside a building,
and everywhere in between.
The new Google Maps will be available for the general
public starting Thursday morning (you can sign up to
request an invite to try it out, here). Along with other
I/O attendees I got access to the updated version of Maps
on Wednesday, and took the service on a test drive.
A Whole New Look
You can tell there�s something a little different about
Google Maps from the moment you visit the page. The map
itself is full screen, with a number of small thumbnails
at the bottom.
Rather than separate search from the map, you can search
using a small widget in the upper-left side of the
screen. Your last three searches automatically show up
(as long as you're logged in), and like before, you can
type the name of a specific location or generic search
term (i.e. "spaghetti restaurants") in the search box.
Results for your search are displayed as points of
interest on the screen. For instance, you can see that
there's a spaghetti restaurant near the park you�re
currently walking through, or by the theater at which you
plan to see a late-night movie. The map also highlight
restaurants reviewed by friends, as well as those that
are highly rated, in general.
You can select a business either by clicking on its name
in the search box, or on a pin on the map. When you click
on a pin, related roads and destinations appear on the
page, helping you plan your journey.
Info Cards
When you click on a business, Maps now brings up an info
card right below the search box. The venue's address is
displayed at the top of the card, along with its hours of
operation. To the right, you�ll find a navigation icon
for directions, a star icon to save the location for
later viewing, and the business� website URL and phone
number.
There's also a Street-View photo icon, as well as the
option to look up more images of a specific location.
When available, Zagat information for a restaurant is
also displayed below its basic contact info.
What's more, Maps learns your preferences as you search
for places, save venues and write reviews, ultimately
making recommendations tailored specifically to your
needs.
A Spectacular Vision
Images really shine in the Google Maps update. Clicking
on the satellite-photo icon on the bottom of the map will
bring up the Google Earth view of a particular area. You
can opt to check out Street View for most areas, and for
venues that support it, you can actually go inside some
buildings.
At the bottom of the page for any given location, Google
features a scrolling menu of images. There are single
images, as well as a series of images that you can click
through for a photo tour.
The images include those that Google has taken, public
images uploaded to Google+ and Picasa, as well as Photo
Spheres (a 360-degree photo typically of the inside of a
building) taken by Android owners.
Photo tours, in particular, get pretty interesting
because they�re user-generated, and are often of the same
location. A photo tour of MIT, for example, pulls up
several photos of the same building � each from different
points in the year. It's cool to see the same place
through the eyes of different photographers and phones.
Better Directions
Maps offers directions for a variety of different
transportation options � car, public transit, walking,
biking and air � that are displayed both in the search
box and on the map itself. The �best� route is shown on
the map by default.
For public transportation, you can visually compare trips
based on number of transfers, walking distance and total
travel time � a useful feature for anyone who has to deal
with public transportation on a daily basis, and wants to
make sure they're taking the quickest route possible.
Want to try out the new Google Maps? You can sign up to
participate in Google' Maps preview, here.
Mashable screenshots; images courtesy of Google Maps
More at:
http://mashable.com/2013/05/15/google-maps-hands-on/
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj
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o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used
for the educational purposes of research and open
discussion. The contents of this post may not have been
authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion
of the poster. The contents are protected by copyright
law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely
not be read, considered or answered if it does not
contain your full legal name, current e-mail and postal
addresses, and live-voice telephone number.
o Posted for information and discussion. Views
expressed by others are not necessarily those of the
poster who may or may not have read the article.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted
material the use of which may or may not have been
specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This
material is being made available in efforts to advance
the understanding of environmental, political, human
rights, economic, democratic, scientific, social, and
cultural, etc., issues. It is believed that this
constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material
as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the
material on this site is distributed without profit to
those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving
the included information for research, comment,
discussion and educational purposes by subscribing to
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information go to:
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