You can use two types of layers – map details and map types – to display more information, or show you where information is stored. Google Maps apps can be tailored to your needs – whether you’re looking at transit routes and stations or trying to find the biggest hill in your city. These days, you have essentially the same features available on mobile apps as you do with the web app– plus the ability to download maps for use offline (which means you can still navigate with GPS on flight mode – a great way to save your phone’s battery). Mobile apps for iOS and Android brought Google Maps into billions of pairs of hands where it was most useful – out and about while driving, using transit, walking, cycling and even flying.Ĭombined with GPS technology in smartphones, Google Maps and other early mobile mapping services started to revolutionize the way we get around. Here you can use all of the Google Maps features – Directions, map type and detail layers, Explore and more. It’s the most popular web mapping service in the world. This is how you access Google Maps from your desktop or laptop browser. Google Maps in the Google Chrome browser.įirst came the web app. !(03 Google Maps in the Google Chrome browser.png) ApplicationsĪpplications (or apps) are what we use to interact with Google Maps. This gives us a way to organize the often overlapping and repeating aspects of Google Maps – and helps us understand the full extent of what Google Maps really is.
Everything that we’ll talk about in this chapter is related in some way, making up the whole of what Google Maps is.įor example, while features like Street View and Explore are rolled into the main web and mobile apps, we’ll explore them in their own right as distinct applications. That’s not to say that Google Maps is just an umbrella name for a variety of disparate things. Algorithms (the complex digital machinery that ties the data to the applications– how it all works).Data (the information that they present to us).Applications (the products that we engage with as Google Maps users).In this chapter, we’ll divide the big Google Maps household into three categories: As we saw in Chapter 1: Introduction to Google Maps, Google Maps is a lot of different things all under one roof.
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