Google Maps in 3D and other innovations

Service Google Street View (Street View) in some way "preparedsoil "for launching Google Maps in 3D. The function Google Street View allows you to view the panorama of the streets of many cities around the world from a height of about 2.5 meters and "wander" through a three-dimensional projection of city streets.

In this mode you can see the most famous placesof the world. Among them, for example, the Amazonian jungle, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the White House in Washington, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, the historical narrow-gauge railway in the Alps. There are also streets of many cities, including Russian ones. but For viewing is usually not the whole city, and its individual streets.

Google Maps in 3D is designed to fix this -Thanks to the transition of Google maps to 3D format in 3D mode, it will be possible to see not only individual city streets, but also the cities themselves as a whole. In this way, Google maps will become more realistic. The technology of three-dimensional image maps was demonstrated by the company at a press conference in San Francisco on June 6, 2012.

3D effect will be achieved thanks toaerial photography of settlements from different angles with the help of "specially trained" aircraft. After the procedure for comparing and processing these aerial photographs, a complete three-dimensional model of cities - both buildings and terrain. The objects can be viewed from all sides, virtually "walking" around the city - more precisely, over the city (users will have a view from the top at an angle of 45 degrees).

Now Google Maps in 3D offer three-dimensional models of the main megacities of America, Europe and Asia. According to the promises of Google, already at the end2012 three-dimensional models in the service Google Maps will be for all more or less large cities in the world, whose population in total is more than three hundred million people (although the specific cities and regions that will be available in 3D mode, have not yet been called).

Representatives of Google argue that their main goal in creating a three-dimensional service in Google maps - to provide all users of Google Maps the opportunity to see the world from a bird's eye view. Probably, each of us at least once in my life dreamed of flying above the city streets, and Google Maps in 3D will make it possible to fulfill this eternal dream - at least virtually.

Another innovation from Google - Street View Trekker. Special camera-backpack will carry outshooting with a viewing angle of 360 degrees, so in the mode of Street View you can see even those regions that can not be reached by transport. The Street View Trekker camera will be worn behind a pedestrian, able to pass into hard-to-reach places for motorists and cyclists.

In Google are planning to get pictures in this way,for example, a number of National Parks in the United States, the Grand Canyon and several ski resorts. The main thing is to think out how to minimize the influence of vibration when moving a person to get better images.

Also, Google promised to introduce Offline mode for Android devices. Now, gadget owners working onGoogle Android operating system, will be able to use Google maps in places where there is no Internet access, and to save on Internet traffic. Of course, you will need to download these cards in advance on your gadget.

The service will be available in more than 100 countries around the world. Now this service is still under testing, but with time Offline mode will be available to all users. Please note that in offline browsing, Google Street View will not be available.