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Google Maps is available as a mobile app for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. The first mobile version of Google Maps (then known as Google Local for Mobile) was launched in beta in November 2005 for mobile platforms supporting J2ME. [185] [186] [187] It was released as Google Maps for Mobile in 2006. [188]
Airport code, businesses, landmarks, postal codes, places of interest All possibility, no restriction Business, places of interest, landmarks, airport codes Business, places of interest, airport codes, postal codes Business, places of interest User created Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Levels of filtering 1 0 0 0 0 0 Directions Feature Google Maps
Google Maps – mapping service that indexes streets and displays satellite and street-level imagery, providing directions and local business search. Google My Maps – a social custom map making tool based on Google Maps. Google Earth – virtual 3D globe that uses satellite imagery, aerial photography, GIS from Google's repository.
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, open geographic database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. Contributors collect data from surveys, trace from aerial photo imagery or satellite imagery, and also import from other freely licensed geodata sources.
Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen is a Danish [1] computer scientist, technology executive, and the co-founder of Google Maps. [2] He was later the director of engineering for Facebook in London. [3] In early 2003, Lars and his brother Jens co-founded a mapping-related startup, Where 2 Technologies, which was acquired by Google in October 2004. Rasmussen ...
Hobart Bay, Alaska. Population: 1 . Located 70 miles south of Juneau, Hobart Bay was once a thriving logging town. Until 1998, it had enough residents to support a local school, but now it's ...
A recent initiative of the program, entitled "Let's Put Our Cities on the Map" was launched in March 2015. According to USA Today, "Google has generated customized websites for virtually every town and city in the U.S. to enable local businesses to learn to improve the information that shows up on Google search, Google maps and Google+."