Thursday, June 28, 2012

Google Maps entire town and offline 3D mode for android coming soon

Google Maps entire town and offline 3D mode for android Google Maps event to unveil today, the next dimension of cards, and as expected, presented it an enhanced Google Maps 3D layer will be available in the different markets, but also Google Maps offline, feature of many Android users have asked for.

Google maps offline soon

Google has today confirmed what we already suspected, that the Google Maps off-line feature that is currently available only Android device users in labs, have much better to close sometime in the future. Android users no longer need an active Internet connection, to get into the city, as they will be able to access the resource to Street View in offline mode. The news is particularly comforting for international travelers who will be able to get Google maps in each region, would not use data charges while roaming in another worry carrier network.

Unfortunately Google has not revealed a recent online release date for Google Maps, but at least we know the feature is coming soon to Android devices. In addition, Google is apparently worked very hard to Google maps offline on IOS devices bring, although it is not known when that will happen.

Google Maps 3D

Google Maps 3D is not new concept, but it took awhile for Google to deliver complete product. Nevertheless, not all markets are covered by Google Maps to enjoy instant 3D support as initially only few communities, totaling 300 million people, the new product.

To make the images, uses Google planes to take pictures in 45-degrees from four different perspectives - they fly in tightly controlled pattern with lot of overlap. Google builds a 3D model from this many pictures, create, using algorithms to optimize the shape and color of the building.

The process is fully automated build the 3D images without any human interaction. The system is intelligent enough to know when particular image or shaded blocks, for example. The company hopes that combine 2D mapping and vector data with the 3D images to may one day provide vertical location information.

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