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Google Maps è tornato su iOS 6

Geek   13.12.12  

Screenshot di Google Maps per iOS

Il tanto atteso nuovo Google Maps per iPhone è disponibile da oggi su App Store.
L'incubo delle mappe di Apple è finito.

The interface is noticeably cleaner than before, though I still prefer the looks -- if not always the accuracy -- of Apple Maps.

Users can choose to designate a home and work address within their profile, which is particularly handy.

Voice-guided turn-by-turn appears to work well.

Users can opt to view public transit as an overlay on the map itself, which is a nice touch.

I love being able to access public-transit directions within my maps app again.

Google Places have been more prominently integrated into the app.

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Come Google realizza le sue mappe

Geek   08.09.12  

Una mappa di Google Maps

L'Atlantic racconta come Google realizza le sue mappe, organizzando e digitalizzando le informazioni per renderle accessibili e usabili.

Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits and traffic conditions. This is the data that you're drawing from when you ask Google to navigate you from point A to point B -- and last week, Google showed me the internal map and demonstrated how it was built. It's the first time the company has let anyone watch how the project it calls GT, or "Ground Truth," actually works.

The company opened up at a key moment in its evolution. The company began as an online search company that made money almost exclusively from selling ads based on what you were querying for. But then the mobile world exploded. Where you're searching has become almost important as what you're searching. Google responded by creating an operating system, brand, and ecosystem in Android that has become the only significant rival to Apple's iOS.

And for good reason. If Google's mission is to organize all the world's information, the most important challenge -- far larger than indexing the web -- is to take the world's physical information and make it accessible and useful.

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