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Ready to suck down your sixth Google Maps for Android update in the past six months? Good. Version 4.4 has just been shoved out into the bright, hopeful world that we call home, with this one bringing about an easier way to find places around you. With the update will come an entirely new logo, as a dedicated ‘Places’ icon allows users to quickly look up nearby places in a Yelp-esque manner. If you tend to search for similar things regardless of where you are, you can load up your own personalized categories to make finding frequent searches that much easier (think “gas station” or “In N Out”). There’s also Place Pages, which now shows the operating hours of listed businesses, compass direction and distance from your location. It’s available now for all Android phones using v1.6 or newer, and if you’re rocking a BlackBerry, you can expect the Place Page to head your way soon.

Google Maps for Android updated to 4.4, adds dedicated ‘Places’ for searching nearby originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple’s gone out an bought itself another mapping company. This time it’s Canadian firm Poly9, which makes interactive 3D software designed for use in a browser. It could be an important step towards Apple making their very own Google Earth. More »

You always knew that Google Maps had ’em — schedule a trip on public transit and the app would tell you exactly when the next few trains or buses would arrive (or, at least, were supposed to arrive). But, getting to the full schedules yourself was never possible. Now it is, with Google Maps getting an update to allow you to tap on bus or train stations and retrieve a listing of which lines will pass through and when, making it a little easier to identify a proper last call that won’t see you springing for an expensive taxi ride. Beyond that, Google has re-organized the information about restaurants and other businesses, and will also suggest friends who are sharing their whereabouts on Latitude. That last bit is helpful if their last call was a little later than yours and they’re now too inebriated to tell you where to find them.

Google Maps on Android updated, adds full public transit schedules originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on April 15, 2008 by CyberNet.

Several weeks ago it was rumored that Street View would be incorporated into the new release of Google Earth. Google has confirmed that in fact there will be a Street View feature available with Google Earth 4.3 which is set to launch this evening at around 8 PM.

The image that Webware posted gives us a good idea of what Street View in Google Earth will be like. Notice the little cameras which you can click on to get a glimpse at what the ground-level view is in a particular location? There’s also the option to click “Show full screen” and view larger versions of the images.

Other features we can expect include:

• Improved navigation – (Webware says that this new navigation “makes the software more like a first-person video game.”)
• Day/Night Lighting – this feature is actually pretty cool because you can watch time-lapse views of sunsets and sunrises either locally or viewing the entire Earth. Also, use this feature to see where in the world the sun is shining, and where it’s dark
• Improved 3D buildings – Now there are more 3D buildings and they load and render faster
• New languages – in all, there are 12 new languages
• Imagery dates – see exactly when the image was captured (only available for some of the imagery)

Keep your eye out for the download links to become available later this evening. From the sounds of it, the Google Earth team has put quite a bit of work into this release.

Other news coming from Google is that Google Maps has received yet another feature that Google Earth Offers, the option to watch YouTube videos from within. Just search the directory for “YouTube Videos” and then add the layer. Once you’ve added the layer, little red dots will appear on your map which show you where videos have been geo-tagged. Clicking on a dot will allow you to watch the video.

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Ooh, goodie! Try as we may, we’ve yet to really find a (good) free alternative to Google Maps Navigation on the iPhone, and while Navigon’s MobileNavigator gets our highest recommendations in the paid GPS department, Google’s own turn-by-turn option is just about enough to make any iPhone-toting traveler jump ship and snag an Android handset. Thankfully for us all, it seems as if this predicament won’t be nearly as trying in the near future, with the company’s own Steve Lee confirming to TechRadar that Google Maps Navigation would be coming to “other platforms” in due time. MacUser specifically mentions the solution coming to iPhone OS, and frankly, we couldn’t think of a better app to ship alongside version 4.0 than this. You’re good at taking hints, right Goog?

Google Maps Navigation could come to iPhone, other platforms soon originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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