Category: Google maps

The answer’s actually pretty simple: Our Earth is round, and not effectively represented by a two-dimensional map. Google Maps uses a Mercator projection, flattening the Earth and stretching it horizontally and vertically, as do most 2D maps. Because of this, either pole invariably gets lost in translation. Why can’t I see the North Pole on […]

Google Maps works without internet as much as it does with the internet. Well there are few limitations but at least something is better than nothing and being lost in the middle of nowhere. Google Maps, a product of Google allows its user to download, save, manage, use and navigate the maps offline within the […]

Google Maps Navigation 4.2 for Android has been expanded and now does voice-guided navigation on the roads of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland (plus Canada, too). It already works in the UK (and the US of course). Luckily last year Google Maps started saving cached versions of the […]

Data: Google Maps use data from more than 1,000 authoritative sources around the world. Think United States Geological Survey (USGS), Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), local municipalities, housing developers, etc. Moreover, how google maps find my location? Go to https://maps., and google. Com in a web browser. You can use any modern […]

Next, drag the yellow “Pegman” to any area on the Google Map to switch from aerial to street view. The image capture date will be instantly displayed in the status bar as shown in the screenshot below. Unlike Google Earth, the capture dates available inside Street View images only reveal the month and year of […]

You might try this Elevation on Google Maps tool. To get the elevation for your current location, just click the little circle button in the upper right of the map. You can also search for elevation of an address, show contour lines of similar elevation, create elevation profiles and some other cool stuff. Another popular […]

The 3D imagery, however, is gathered via airplane, similar to how Google Street View cars grab photos from the ground. The images are overlapped, pieced together to show depth, and covered with texture. Google Earth is apparently composed of tens of millions of images, which Google tries to update once a year. 2 Locate a […]

Although Google Maps does support GPX, the file will still need to be converted into the KML format. GPX is not considered to be one of the easier formats to import into Google Maps and can face difficulties depending on the amount of data moved. To use Maps to GPX, paste your Google Maps URL […]

But in reality, Google Maps uses virtually no data compared to the other apps on your phone. On average, Google Maps uses around 2.19MB of data for every hour you’re on the road. To summarize it all, Google Maps is Android’s proprietary navigation app that comes with phones running the said mobile operating system. How […]

The orientation of Google Maps is always the same when you’re browsing on a computer. North is on the top of the map, and south is on the bottom. The left will always be west, and the right is always east. Anything directly above the location you’re browsing is always to the location’s north . […]