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CNET News - Google navigates new future for Maps

2013-05-16
you at me and everybody else we look at the exact same map what would it be awesome if you could build billions of maps one for every user and not only that I map that adapt to what you do a map build for you I just moved here about a year ago this is a nice neighborhood and it was an exciting time as I got to explore a new area and I love exploring and so one of the first things I did a search for restaurants and this is our new search experience no more just ten pins all the results are labeled directly on the map this makes exploring really fast and easy and the top results they come with a useful description that gives you a flavor of the place so you can make decisions very quickly no need for cross-referencing everything is right there on the map the map is the user interface now of course this is all the way how you can find restaurants you can ask your friends and now you can do that directly in the new google maps we added a filter and now you see those search results are all the sushi places that my friends have reviewed the key to hear that my friend Stephanie likes and these are new cards they summarize everything that is important about this place but earlier I was talking about imagery and you see those three photos and I love this part let's take a closer look so but I know my friends kids and they will definitely want to explore more now that's going to be really easy because now all the landmarks is he on the map are related to the landmark to the Randall museum and so they're all about kids in museums you can see the cartoon art museum you can see their walt disney museum and when we click on that you get a whole new map with new places to explore so we can click on the exploratorium and when we click on exploratorium another map appear so we can keep going and going this is a great way to explore new places the map is the user interface great using is that we directly compare driving the public transit on the map before we showed you the next three departures but now we are going to look at every departure every second for the entire next week and summarize that for you and if you want more details you can use our new schedule viewer so let's take a trip so this is a really nice 3d model of the st. Peter's Basilica but can we have a more realistic view no plugins no downloads this is the google earth experience right there on a browser that's not all you see this row of images at the bottom these are other great views of that area that makes it really easy to explore and the beauty of this place is really on the inside so let's go on a tour this is a 3d photo tour that is automatically generated from user uploaded photos so we'll only get better and better so we jump back out and that's assuming out and you're leaving the Earth's atmosphere you can see the whole world and those clouds they're real time but we can go further that this is the earth traveling through space and you can see the stars in the Milky Way at the right position and as the Sun sets behind the earth the night lights come out and this is the future of Judah night
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