Know About the Benefits Of Google Map

Introduction

Google Maps is perhaps the world's single most used navigational software. It's free, works offline in some instances, and is generally very accurate. Google maps is available on mobile phones, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. It's basically available on anything with a screen, keyboard, and Internet connection.

The free service includes Google Maps, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit and Google bicycle route, so it's perfectly made for travel planning and finding your way if you ever get lost. Attached to the Google maps project you'll also find Google Earth, a program that shows you every part of the entire earth, most pictures are however a year or several years old.

Google Maps has become the go to free to use application for globe or neighborhood trotters everywhere, if you need to know where you are, where you're going and when you'll get there, Google Map is your friend.

Google Map started as a C++ program made two Danish brothers, who worked for Where 2 Technologies in Australia. It offered live maps of areas that customers could download personally, but W2T (Where 2 Technologies) scrapped this distribution model and pitched the idea as a purely web based application to Google. Google in turn, liked the pitch and bought W2T in the month of October, 2004. It took Google almost half a year to fine tune and release the product (Google Maps), which it did on February 8th, 2005. When Google Map first came out, it only supported IE (Internet Explorer) and Firefox, but by the 25th of the same month Google had added support for Safari and Opera.

Google Maps currently support EI, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and OPERA (Opera Mini as well). Outside of Internet browsers, Google Maps can be found as a native app on Android based devices, both smartphones and tablets, and on iOS based devices such as iPhones, iPods, and iPads as well.

The benefits of Google Map are numerous, as you can choose to view things from satellite, map, 3D, and street view. Let's find out what these three options do.

Google Map can show images of countries and places in there natural state, all green hills or concrete jungles. However, it's hard to find out the exact names of streets or find direction in Google Map's satellite version, if you want specific direction or instructions, it's time to fire up Google map view itself. Google map shows you the names, traffic density, direction and location of every city and place on earth, It's the perfect route planner.

If you want to see buildings stand tall and mighty, or see the hills as they're meant to be seen, then 3D view is there to help. In places such as the U.S., U.K. and Australia, you can see picture perfect three dimensional replications of buildings and places, while in other places the terrain looks flatter but it' still an interesting site nonetheless.

Finally we have street view, which is perhaps the most entertaining feature of Google Map. It shows you a live view of any street in the UK, U.S., Australia, and other major countries. It feels like you're literally walking down a street.

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