Explore the ocean with Google Maps

Dive deeper at maps.google.com/ocean


Google Maps strives to provide people around the globe with the most comprehensive, accurate and usable map of the world - including the underwater world. This ocean collection includes six of the world's most incredible underwater spots, including coral reefs (and their inhabitants) in Australia, the Philippines and Hawaii. This imagery is available to millions of people through the Street View feature of Google Maps and in our Street View Gallery at: maps.google.com/ocean.

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Street View hits the stunning Swiss Alps railways

Street View hops on the train to capture the Swiss Alps

Coming soon: In cooperation with Rhaetian Railway, our Street View team has collected images from one of the world's most scenic railway routes—the Albula-Bernina line in Switzerland which is also a UNESCO Heritage site. http://maps.google.com/streetview

Sendai Earthquake 2011

http://mw1.google.com/crisisresponse/2011/sendai_earthquake/google/map/sendai_earthquake_2011.html

Check In with Google Latitude

Check in with Google Latitude. Update Google Maps in Android Market and then join Latitude from the main menu to start checking in at the places you go.

- Check in at places such as restaurants to let friends know you're there.
- Get automatically checked out when you leave.
- Turn on automatic check-ins at places you choose or check-in notifications in Latitude's settings.

Learn more from the blog post:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011...

Google Maps: Mass Animal Deaths

View Mass Animal Deaths in a larger map

Announcing the Panoramio Photo Contest

The Panoramio community enables you to share your photos and explore them on Google Earth, Google Maps and other places. If you’ve never geo-tagged a photo, watch this video to learn how easy it is to add photos to the Panoramio layer in Google Earth.

Now you can add some excitement to your photo project and enter your photos to the monthly Panoramio Geotagged Photo Contest! Starting this month, we’ll be giving away the new Casio Hybrid-GPS camera EX-H20G to the winner of each category (Scenery, Heritage, Travel and Unusual Location). The Panoramio community reviews all of the submissions and votes for what they consider to be the best each month.

Explore the stadiums in South Africa with Street View in Google Maps

See the South African football stadiums in 3D and go right inside with Street View.

How to create a "My Map" in Google Maps

Go to Google Maps: http://maps.google.com |
Google Maps Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view... | How to create personalized, annotated, customized maps using Google Maps.

Google Maps Navigation (Beta)

Google Maps Navigation (Beta)

Google Maps Navigation is an internet-connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance. It is part of Google Maps for mobile and is available for phones with Android 2.0.

Google Maps Navigation uses your phone's internet connection to give you the latest maps and business data. But that's not all that's different about Google's approach to GPS navigation. Watch the below video to learn more.

a demonstration of Google Maps Navigation (Beta), an internet-connected GPS navigation system that provides turn-by-turn voice guidance as a free feature of Google Maps on Android 2.0 phones.

Google Maps: Favorite Places

Explore the favorite places of local experts from cities around the world. Find out where they like to go, and why, from their own perspectives.

Favorite Places: Introducing a collection of favorite places around the world

Static Maps API v2

Now, Google have rewritten the API and are launching the new interface as Static Maps API v2. The main new features are:

• Paths can be specified as encoded polylines. (Issue 205)
• Paths can be filled and rendered as polygons. (Issue 792)
• Locations (in center, markers, or path parameters) can now be specified as addresses instead of latitude/longitude coordinates.
• Colors can now be specified as any 24-bit or 32-bit color.

Source: Google Geo Developers Blog: Static Maps API v2: Encoded Paths, Polygons & Geocoding

To play around with everything right now, try the new Static Maps v2 Wizard.

Google Maps for mobile

Download Google Maps for mobile to your phone, and never carry a paper map again.

• Determine your current location with or without GPS
• Get driving and transit directions
• Get phone numbers and addresses for local businesses

Or type this URL into your phone's browser: m.google.com/maps

Current supported platforms:

• Android
• BlackBerry
• Java
• Windows Mobile
• Symbian S60 3rd Edition (most new Nokia smartphones)
• Palm OS
• iPhone (pre-installed)

The Google Maps API V3

What is the Google Maps API?

The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on the http://maps.google.com web page) and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.

This Google Maps API V3 will look similar to the existing version 2 of the Google Maps API. However, much has changed under the hood: Version 3 has been designed to load fast, especially on mobile browsers such as Android-based devices and the iPhone™. The initial launch has a smaller feature set than that available in the V2 API. Additional features from V2 will be migrated while working to keep the size of the JavaScript code small and maintain our optimized loading speeds.

Google Maps API and New York City

New York City uses the Google Maps API, Google Maps for mobile, and the Google Earth API in the Official NYC Information Center and on nycgo.com

Google Maps Street View

Street View: Explore neighborhoods at street level–virtually.

Use Street View to:

View street level photographs

Take virtual walks; pan, rotate and zoom through cities around the world

Find shops, restaurants, parks, hotels and more

New! Navigate faster in Street View.

Google Sightseeing

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

Google just beefed up G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP!

Google just ( May 29, 2009 ) announced a completely rewritten and 'beefed up' G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP (see Figure 2), available now in the latest experimental version of the Maps API (currently 2.160). While the usage is the same (simply use the line of code above), the overlay/feature synchronization is much more extensive, the 2D/3D transitioning is seamless, and the overall Maps/Earth integration is much stronger.

Most common Maps API overlays are now supported: markers, polylines, polygons, ground overlays, screen overlays, and even GGeoXml objects are automatically mirrored in the Google Earth Plugin. In fact, GGeoXml works in an especially powerful way: although Maps may not display all KML from a GGeoXml (i.e. 3D models), the Earth Plugin will show all the content, in all its 3D glory.

More details>>>

Beefed up G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP

Ajax, Google Maps and MyEclipse

Abstract:

This is a demonstration that showcases the power of Eclipse-based technology through the use of advanced Ajax tooling and interaction with one of the Web's most popular API's, Google Maps.

Total running time is 10:00 minutes

Ajax, Google Maps and MyEclipse

Google Maps

Google Maps is a Google service offering powerful, user-friendly mapping technology and local business information -- including business locations, contact information, and http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifdriving directions. With Google Maps, you'll enjoy the following unique features:

• Integrated business search results - Find business locations and contact information all in one location, integrated on the map. For example, if you search for [ pizza in San Jose, CA ], locations of relevant listings and phone numbers appear on the map. You can also view additional information like hours of operation, types of payment accepted, and reviews.
• Draggable maps - Click and drag maps to view adjacent sections instantly (no long waits for new areas to download).
• Satellite imagery - View a satellite image (or a satellite image with superimposed map data) of your desired location that you can zoom and pan.
• Terrain maps - View physical features, such as mountains and vegetation, with elevation shading.
• Street View - View and navigate within street-level imagery.
• Detailed directions - Enter an address and let Google Maps plot the location and driving directions for you. Plan a trip by adding multiple destinations to your route, and click and drag the route to customize it. Learn more about Google Maps driving directions.
• Keyboard shortcuts - Pan left, right, up and down with the arrow keys. Pan wider with the Page Up, Page Down, Home and End keys. Zoom in and out with the plus (+) and minus (-) keys.
• Double-click to zoom functionality - Double left-click to zoom in, and double right-click to zoom out (Ctrl+ double-click for Mac users).
• Scroll wheel zooming - Use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out of the maps.

Want to learn more? Take the Google Maps tour.



http://maps.google.com/