Category: Google maps

One of the many reasons Google Maps won’t function is due to its cache and system files. The Maps app stores certain temporary data on your Android device. While this usually speeds up performance, this data eventually gets too large and sometimes starts causing issues with the app. Updating Google Maps to the latest app […]

Google Maps makes money through two primary revenue sources : Local Ads: Ads at the top of local business listings and custom branded map pins ($3.5bn a year). Google also generates income from its free Maps program through another, more subtle, form of advertising. Google maps are highly detailed. Each map shows individual businesses on […]

After additional acquisitions of a geospatial data visualization company and a real time traffic analyzer, Google Maps was launched in February 2005. The service’s front end utilizes Java. Script, XML, and Ajax. Google Maps was created by a pair of Denmark-born but Sydney-based developers. Brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen co-founded a startup mapping company in […]

It’s just Digital Degrees instead of Degrees, Minutes, Seconds. If you use Earth for Chrome, you can set the coordinates to DMS. If you use Google Earth Pro, you can set the coordinates to DMS and several other things. WGS84 is standard for GPS The Global Positioning System uses the World Geodetic System (WGS84) as […]

There’s no Google Maps for self-driving cars, so this startup is building it In as little as 24 hours, Mapper will deliver a machine-readable map of any place on earth with public roads. Here is what I ran into. google showcases its latest self-driving car prototype, allowing members of the public to be taken for […]

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. True […]

First $200-worth of API calls are free. The new pricing strategy employed by Google for their Maps Platform is a freemium one – all users get to make $200-worth of API calls for free each month. That works out as, for example: up to 28,000 free loads of Dynamic Maps; or. Up to 100,000 free […]

There’s a more temporary way to use Google Maps offline. Navigation works offline just by setting up your route when you have a connection. Maps will automatically download the info you need to get to your destination. This is completely independent of your manually downloaded map areas. Without further ado, let’s show you how to […]

Open a new map and click “Import” from the Layers toolbar. Upload your spreadsheet and, when prompted, select the latitude and longitude columns to identify the location and the “Name” column to give each place a name. After clicking “Finish ,” the MGRS points should all appear on the Google map. So, will this map […]

Open the Google Maps app on your i. Phone or Android. Tap the search bar and enter the name or address of the place you want to view. Tap the small photo box on the left side of the screen. Type in the address you want to get street view for and tap the thumbnail […]