Google Maps is a mobile internet mapping service application and technology provided by Google, giving street maps, satellite imagery, and Street view perspectives, also functions like a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (beta test), or with public transportation. Additionally supported are maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API, and a surveyor for urban businesses and different organizations in various countries round the world. Google Maps satellite pictures don't seem to be updated in real time; but, Google adds knowledge to their Primary info on a daily basis, and most of the pictures aren't any over three years old.
The opt-in redesigned version of the desktop application has been on the market since 2013, alongside the "classic" version (pre-2013). The version that was redesigned was met by user criticism concerning slowness, removing a scale bar, concealing some common functions, and lack of other options that include My Places and sharable custom-built links to parameterize split Street view and Map views. It’s possible to modify back to the previous version.
Google Maps uses a close variant of the Mercator projection, and thus cannot accurately show areas round the poles. A related product is Google Earth, a complete program that offers additional globe-viewing features, as well as showing polar areas.
Google Maps for mobile is the world's preferred app for smart phones, with over fifty four of world Smartphone house owners using it a minimum of once throughout the month of August 2013.
Much of the world's available satellite imagery is not more than three years old and updated on a daily basis. Google Maps provides high-resolution aerial or satellite pictures for many urban areas of the globe. Satellite imagery doesn't essentially seem in the same resolution— as an example less inhabited areas typically seem with less detail.
Google's mapping engine prompted a surge of interest in satellite imagery, because of its simply pan-able and searchable mapping and satellite tool of imagery. To be created, were websites to feature satellite pictures of attention-grabbing natural and human-made landmarks, as well as such novelties as massive writing visible within the imagery, renowned stadiums, and distinctive geologic formations.
Together with Google Street view, problems like parking, turning lanes, and unidirectional streets are often viewed before traveling. Driving directions are lined as follows:
• Most countries of dry land Eurasia and Africa are covered contiguously, as well as Malta, Sri Lanka, Nepal, most of Indonesia, Ireland, the Canary Islands, the UK, Cyprus, and Timor-Leste. China dry land, Macau, Hong Kong, Lebanon Jordan and Democratic People's Republic of Korea have directions available without affiliation to other states. Only transit directions are provided for South Korea.
• All countries of dry land North and Central America are covered contiguously.
• All countries of dry land South America are lined. All countries excluding Colombia but including Trinidad and Tobago* (*although thought of to be a part of North America) are treated in a contiguous manner.
• All inhabited countries and territories within the Caribbean are covered, although generally there aren't any connections between islands.