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Re: Google's new 3D Maps destroy Manhattan in the wake of Apple's Flyover
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Alan Browne
May 22, 2013, 8:54:35 PM5/22/13
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On 2013.05.22 20:28 , Michelle Steiner wrote:
> <http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/22/googles-new-3d-maps-destroy-manha
> ttan-in-the-wake-of-apples-flyover>
>
> Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 06:05 pm
> By Daniel Eran Dilger
> Nearly a year after Apple introduced its own Maps service in iOS 6 with
> Flyover 3D satellite views, Google is expanding its own online Maps to
> support similar 3D satellite imagery, with the same sorts of buckled roads
> and visual distortions Apple was castigated for last summer.
>
>
> Introducing the new Google Maps with 3D
> <http://photos.appleinsider.com/GoogleMaps3d.0.052213.jpg>
>
> Unlike Apple's iOS 6 Maps, which target relatively low powered mobile
> devices, the new 3D features in Google Maps that were introduced last week
> require a modern PC running a web browser with a supported version of WebGL
> hardware accelerated rendering.
>
> That limits Google Maps' photorealistic 3D features to users of Chrome or
> Firefox on a Mac or Windows PC. Mobile users will have to settle for grey
> 3D building models or use the increasingly outdated Google Earth, which
> unlike Apple Maps' Flyover feature, is not integrated with the search and
> directions of Google's mobile Maps apps.
Oh <yawn>. On my mobile all I want is the fricken map and _maybe_ a
satellite view from time to time.
And on my mobile the most useful feature is search when I'm in a new
city and looking for something particular.
--
"A Canadian is someone who knows how to have sex in a canoe."
-Pierre Berton
> <http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/22/googles-new-3d-maps-destroy-manha
> ttan-in-the-wake-of-apples-flyover>
>
> Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 06:05 pm
> By Daniel Eran Dilger
> Nearly a year after Apple introduced its own Maps service in iOS 6 with
> Flyover 3D satellite views, Google is expanding its own online Maps to
> support similar 3D satellite imagery, with the same sorts of buckled roads
> and visual distortions Apple was castigated for last summer.
>
>
> Introducing the new Google Maps with 3D
> <http://photos.appleinsider.com/GoogleMaps3d.0.052213.jpg>
>
> Unlike Apple's iOS 6 Maps, which target relatively low powered mobile
> devices, the new 3D features in Google Maps that were introduced last week
> require a modern PC running a web browser with a supported version of WebGL
> hardware accelerated rendering.
>
> That limits Google Maps' photorealistic 3D features to users of Chrome or
> Firefox on a Mac or Windows PC. Mobile users will have to settle for grey
> 3D building models or use the increasingly outdated Google Earth, which
> unlike Apple Maps' Flyover feature, is not integrated with the search and
> directions of Google's mobile Maps apps.
Oh <yawn>. On my mobile all I want is the fricken map and _maybe_ a
satellite view from time to time.
And on my mobile the most useful feature is search when I'm in a new
city and looking for something particular.
--
"A Canadian is someone who knows how to have sex in a canoe."
-Pierre Berton
JF Mezei
May 22, 2013, 9:50:33 PM5/22/13
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On 13-05-22 20:54, Alan Browne wrote:
> Oh <yawn>. On my mobile all I want is the fricken map and _maybe_ a
> satellite view from time to time.
On mobile, I woudl want bigger text fonts for street names so I can read
> Oh <yawn>. On my mobile all I want is the fricken map and _maybe_ a
> satellite view from time to time.
them while moving or on a bumpy bus.
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JF Mezei
May 22, 2013, 10:05:03 PM5/22/13
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On 13-05-22 21:51, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> <yawn> when Google does it; incensed outraged when Apple does it.
Google gets into the eye candy after having built pretty solid core
mapping database.
Apple went into eye candy before having solid core mapping database.
> <yawn> when Google does it; incensed outraged when Apple does it.
Google gets into the eye candy after having built pretty solid core
mapping database.
Apple went into eye candy before having solid core mapping database.
Alan Browne
May 23, 2013, 4:52:36 PM5/23/13
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On 2013.05.22 21:51 , Michelle Steiner wrote:
> In article <pdGdnXQSK5hW9QDM...@giganews.com>,
nice) but that it contained so many inaccuracies and that it _replaced_
Google Maps in that iOS release leaving people without the tried and
(mostly) true.
I just got access to the new Google Maps (web) and the building
rendering is not very good at all IMO. It sort of works but there is a
medium distance where buildings look really strange and blobby
(unfinished in their "conversion" from a 2D photo from the top into the
3D rendering).
Not impressed with it at all. But the old Google Maps is still there.
> In article <pdGdnXQSK5hW9QDM...@giganews.com>,
> Alan Browne <alan....@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>
>> Oh <yawn>. On my mobile all I want is the fricken map and _maybe_ a
>> satellite view from time to time.
>
>
>> Oh <yawn>. On my mobile all I want is the fricken map and _maybe_ a
>> satellite view from time to time.
>
> <yawn> when Google does it; incensed outraged when Apple does it.
The point with Apple was not what they did (that looked very slick and
nice) but that it contained so many inaccuracies and that it _replaced_
Google Maps in that iOS release leaving people without the tried and
(mostly) true.
I just got access to the new Google Maps (web) and the building
rendering is not very good at all IMO. It sort of works but there is a
medium distance where buildings look really strange and blobby
(unfinished in their "conversion" from a 2D photo from the top into the
3D rendering).
Not impressed with it at all. But the old Google Maps is still there.
Jolly Roger
May 23, 2013, 5:27:12 PM5/23/13
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labelled "fanbois", if I remember correctly.
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Jolly Roger
May 23, 2013, 5:28:12 PM5/23/13
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In article <michelle-966F49...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <mich...@michelle.org> wrote:
> In article <pdGdnXQSK5hW9QDM...@giganews.com>,
> Alan Browne <alan....@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>
> In article <pdGdnXQSK5hW9QDM...@giganews.com>,
> Alan Browne <alan....@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>
> > Oh <yawn>. On my mobile all I want is the fricken map and _maybe_ a
> > satellite view from time to time.
>
> > satellite view from time to time.
>
> <yawn> when Google does it; incensed outraged when Apple does it.
double standard
Jolly Roger
May 23, 2013, 5:29:00 PM5/23/13
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In article <519d7950$0$55126$c3e8da3$e408...@news.astraweb.com>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei...@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 13-05-22 21:51, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>
> > <yawn> when Google does it; incensed outraged when Apple does it.
>
> Google gets into the eye candy after having built pretty solid core
> mapping database.
wavey roads and all
> On 13-05-22 21:51, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>
> > <yawn> when Google does it; incensed outraged when Apple does it.
>
> Google gets into the eye candy after having built pretty solid core
> mapping database.
Alan Browne
May 23, 2013, 5:31:35 PM5/23/13
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On 2013.05.23 17:27 , Jolly Roger wrote:
> People making such statements during the Apple 3D maps fiasco were
> labelled "fanbois", if I remember correctly.
See my other reply to Michelle.
> People making such statements during the Apple 3D maps fiasco were
> labelled "fanbois", if I remember correctly.
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