Social gaming was a big part of Facebook’s success, so in a continued effort to get more people using Google+, the search giant has created a promo video for an upcoming game that turns their maps into a playable labyrinth.
Getting between buildings in Vegas is fairly straightforward. It’s once you’re inside that things get confusing. If you happen to be in Nevada for CES this year – or just want to gaze over the maze that is Vegas’ hotels and convention centres – Google Maps has launched indoor mapping of the event.
Where have you gone, Pacific Highway? Technically, Google Maps can see it, if you’re nice enough to type it in directly, but try and plan a trip via the search giant’s online atlas and, well, one of Australia’s major highways is off-limits for no discernible reason.
Just look at the destruction. Seaside towns transformed into inland mountains of rubble. Google’s traveled some 44,000 kilometers through tsunami-ravaged Japanese countryside to digitally archive the immense damage. Be sure to have a hanky at the ready when exploring.
There are lots of explanations for the gigantic structures built in China’s desert. But the most mysterious thing is invisible: according to a former CIA analyst, there’s someone who has ordered tons of satellite photos of this area since 2004.
This is crazy. New photos have appeared in Google Maps showing unidentified titanic structures in the middle of the Chinese desert. The first one is an intricate network of what appears to be huge metallic stripes. Is this a military experiment? Updated.
Only for heavy business users at first, but is Google’s “everything’s free” mantra starting to sag at the edges?
For the past few years, Apple has been hammering away at building its own mapping platform to shake the yoke of Google Maps. It just took another step toward assembling its cartographic Frankenstein’s monster by buying up C3 Technologies, which assembles hyper-realistic 3D maps and integrates them with more traditional 2D maps and photos.
