Users can also plan a journey to anywhere in the world, and get 3D images and live satellite views of the Earth. It is essentially a miniature map at the bottom of the screen. Google Maps Live View provides real-time Google Maps directions in a real-world setting. It was explicitly designed to run seamlessly on devices with limited memory connected to unreliable networks - without compromising speed, accurate directions, real-time traffic updates and transit information. Google Maps Go is a lightweight version of the Google Maps mobile app that was first released for Android Go edition devices. The reason these two land masses look relative in size on a 2D map is to compensate for the circular shape of the Earth, which stretches the countries out.Google Maps for mobile offers location services for motorists that use the Global Positioning System ( GPS) location of an iOS or Android mobile device, if available, along with data from wireless and cellular networks. In the announcement, the company notes that Greenland, which is 836,300 square miles, is no longer the size of Africa which is 11.73 million square miles. Google Maps announced the change on Twitter and wasn't shy about the flattening issue fix. (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab) Earth is limited to Google Chrome and as it uses a proprietary 3D rendering engine based on Native Client (Opens in a new tab) software that is exclusive to the browser.

The latter has always presented the world in 3D and is used more for storytelling, exploration, and of course education. While this does confirm that Google Maps is not part of the flat earth movement, it also speaks to the importance and impact of the company's other mapping service Google Earth. What's best about this update is that it's coming to all desktop users regardless of the respective web browser, thanks to the global Web GL standard. These extremely good Google Maps features that everyone definitely wanted are finally sort of available

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