{"id":77970,"date":"2013-05-15T21:37:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=77970"},"modified":"2013-05-16T08:44:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T06:44:04","slug":"revamped-google-maps-preview-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/77970-revamped-google-maps-preview-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Revamped Google Maps preview announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/a>\u2019s product management director for Maps<\/a>, Bernhard Seefeld<\/a>, unveiled what they called \u201cThe Future of Google Maps\u201d, at the Google I\/O conference in San Francisco today (15 May 2013).<\/p>\n

Among the features announced is the display of locations returned from searches in Maps right on the map, rather than in a sidebar.<\/p>\n

Clicking on a place name, along with bringing up a card with information pertinent to the place, also contextually turns on and off the names of roads leading to the location.<\/p>\n

Location cards are also able to show photos of a place, and clicking on them launches a 3D photo tour generated from user-uploaded photos.<\/p>\n

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Google Maps new full screen interface<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cNo plugins, no downloads,\u201d Seefeld said, \u201cThe Google Earth experience right in the browser.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maps will also pull recommendation data from Google Now, showing things such as restaurants friends have recommended, and favourite places that you have \u201cstarred\u201d.<\/p>\n

Navigation in Google Maps has also been improved, with Seefeld saying that driving and public transit directions are shown at the same time.<\/p>\n

Seefeld said that sign-ups for a preview of the \u201cfuture of Maps\u201d would be open at maps.google.com\/preview.<\/p>\n

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Google Play Music All Access announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

900 million Android devices activated<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Google Now hits iPhone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Google Street View adds Japan\u2019s Fukushima nuclear disaster zone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sign-ups for a preview of the new Google Maps have been announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[19506,167,2272,35],"class_list":["post-77970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-bernhard-seefeld","tag-google","tag-google-maps","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77974,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77970\/revisions\/77974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}