Geospatial
Google have updated Street View imagery of Australian towns and cities is live in Google Maps.
Places around Australia are now available in higher quality to help you plan your visits and show off your favourite places to friends.
Hot on the heels of a new style for the Google Maps user interface, Google are pushing out some further improvements to their map design to match the updated look and feel and further improve the usability of our maps.
Last December, the release of Google Maps 5.0 for Android ushered in the next-generation of mobile maps where you can rotate, tilt, and zoom in and out of 3D maps. Whether you’re on the go or playing with a new phone, seeing a 3D skyline spring up in New York City, Zurich,Milan, and other cities is a helpful, fun, and unique experience - an experience we want as many of you as we can to have for your city.
The Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 proposed a highly regular grid pattern as the layout for an island that was mostly farmland and wilderness in a still-young country. Two hundred years after the streets and avenues were dreamed up, the landscape of New York City has changed dramatically as skyscrapers have been built, parks have been planted and the population has increased by millions. Today’s latest batch of updated imagery reveals new, high resolution imagery of Manhattan.
Today Google Maps added live traffic coverage for 13 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland. The new traffic information will automatically be available in Google Maps for Android, iOS, and mobile browsers.
The month of June proved fruitful for mapping enthusiasts, tech buffs, and entrepreneurs throughout Pakistan as they gathered for a series of Google MapUps organised at universities in three major cities: Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.
After the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated the coastal communities of Eastern Japan, Google tried to find ways to use their technologies in support of relief activities. This started immediately after the quake with Google’s Person Finder to help locate displaced individuals, and more recently, projects spurring economic recovery in the affected areas, such as the “YouTube Business Support Channel,” which enables local businesses to promote their products and establishments to a nationwide audience.
Google have released Google Maps 5.7 for Android. From Bangkok to Baltimore, Google have added Transit Navigation (Beta), updated access to directions, better suggested search results, and a photo viewer to Place pages - all of which can help you whether you’re traveling to an unfamiliar part of town or visiting a city across the world.
Often when you’re taking public transport, you arrive at a stop on time only to anxiously check the time and look down the street for your bus, which is more often than not, running late. Those extra minutes waiting seem like an eternity, and the only information you can access on your phone is when the bus was ‘supposed’ to arrive.
The Google Earth and Google Maps Imagery Team has been busy publishing its first batch of satellite and aerial imagery for June, and as always, there are all kinds of fascinating sites and features to check out.
The first example image shown below is of the Sacred Heart church and its famous gilded dome located on the Notre Dame campus in Notre Dame, Indiana. A church has continuously occupied this site since 1830 and the current basilica foundation was laid in 1868. This aerial imagery was acquired in late April, 2011.
