The new Google Maps - ABC.es

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Probably one of the most shocking presented at the Google I / O was updating Google Maps, a success to be left just to the end of the presentation and all attendees we left with good taste.

The figures speak for themselves, more than 50 countries with the functionality of Google Street View, including the Australian Great Barrier Reef can be seen and “dive” for her, as if we were walking down Paseo de la Castellana. The last country that has joined Google Maps, sharing its information with Google maps has been North Korea, which has not allowed it. Thousands of miles with navigation prompts new additions. A million websites that use Google Maps somehow, visited by 1,000 million people every week. Millions of downloads for iPhone, both now launch a specific application for iPad.

One of the most useful new features is that Google Maps to plot a route you can see the incidents on the road in real time and if there are any problems you advised via a new fastest route to your destination point.

The most common searches on Google Maps, is the restaurant, which is why the information provided by the maps significantly enriched, now, not only is the valuation of the users, but it opinion we also gastronomic experts Zagat, which adds value when choosing a restaurant. In addition, if the facility has any available supply your information will directly clicking on it.

The new Google Maps is really catered for the discovery, to seek and find new places, for that reason, we can keep our favorite places on the same map and see our friends at Google+. So, if we look for a restaurant, when you click on it, we also show the restaurants saved as favorites by our Google+ contacts and similar restaurants recommended by Google.

Another way to discover new places is looking at the lower band map display which shows images of interesting places in the area we have selected as well, if we select San Francisco, we see images of the Golden Gate, Lombard Street, Pier and many more.

Another new feature is amazing, not only to see in 3D outside of buildings to bird’s eye view, but to see inside, for example, a shopping center, where we can see the entire structure and shops that are housed in it. If in addition, there are photos of the interior or exterior, are displayed in the lower bar gallery mode, but even if a user has uploaded an image of 360 degrees, we can see inside as if we were inside the building. Obviously, not all buildings in the world have this feature but will be adding more as users will providing more information about them.

But more impressive visually, is the integration of Google Earth into maps, to zoom out to see the land, we will have a perfect image of the globe that can rotate 360 ??degrees with clouds atmosphere reproduced in real time. If away a little map, we can see the whole Milky Way with the earth as the center, where you can see parts of the planet that are illuminated by the sun and which are at night, all in real time.

probably the most representative image of the Google I / O for many has been to Earth with the sun peeking out from one end, an image that drew applause and cheers from all attendees.