Google Maps
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Google Maps (formerly Google Local) is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bike (beta), or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. Google Maps satellite images are not updated in real time; they are several months or years old.
Google Maps uses a close variant of the Mercator projection, so it cannot show areas around the poles. A related product is Google Earth, a stand-alone program which offers more globe-viewing features, including showing polar areas.
Google Maps is a map service provided by Google. Street View is an option first tried in Japan and Australia. Directions have two options, walking and driving, and recently it is often used integrated with local public transportation through open APIs. It is popular as a public API.
Category
- wxWidgets:Example:GoogleMaps: wxWidgets Google Maps example.
Projects
- Dawarich - self-hosted alternative to Google Maps Timeline
Issue
- http://code.google.com/intl/ko-KR/apis/maps/articles/tutorial-iphone.html
- Google Maps API V3: developing native iPhone applications.
Favorite site
- Google Maps site
- Wikipedia (en) brief description of Google Maps
- Android app development: easily showing speech bubbles on a Google Map