Tag: google maps

  • How to set the Home and Work Location in Google Now Accurately.

    Google Maps allows us to select a Home and Work location for quick use to determine Directions and for use in Google Now too . Here’s how to set the location. Open Google Maps on your Android or iOS device Click on the “Person” icon on the top right You’ll be displayed a screen to…

  • Google silently launches "See Inside" in India

    I was browsing for restaurants earlier this week and saw that Google has started adding "See Inside" in India too. Despite setbacks to Google from providing a real Street View for Indian cities, Google has managed to innovate. “See Inside” is a Street View for inside restaurants, shops and other establishments. There are already tons…

  • Google Maps Now Available on the iPhone

    Google has finally released its maps app for iOS giving relief to a lot of users around the world. After many embarrassing turn of events for Apple, it was inevitable for Google to work on and release an awesome app to users facing too much inconvenience. And they have delivered well. The new app is…

  • How To Get Back Google Maps Experience on iOS6 (iPhone/iPad)

    Apple dug it’s own hole by replacing the much Beautiful Google Maps with its crappy Apple Maps (powered by TomTom) on iOS6 – There I said it. The sheer disaster is very obvious from the tweets all over the world. Some of the non-techies woke up with a surprise with the features that they lost…

  • Turn by Turn Voice Navigation Now Available in Google Maps in India

    Google has launched their turn by turn voice navigation service in India today. The service is available on all Android phones with Android version 2.2 and above in the latest Google Maps app. The service gives you voice based turn by turn directions while driving using our GPS location to determine your current position on…

  • Mobile Safari Gyroscope Demo shows the Future of Google Maps

    While making their new iPhone app 360 Panarama, Occipital discovered that Mobile Safari can actually utilize the Gyroscope for navigation in some webpages. They created a demo that can be seen on your iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 4G as long as they have been updated to iOS 4.2. Just visit the website occip.it/pt3dmqna from…

  • Google Maps 5 for Android brings 3D, offline support

    Google has released 5.0 version of their Maps application for Android devices. This is the most feature rich update to Google Maps since long. Maps in 3D Maps 5.0 now includes 3D viewing support for buildings and structures. From this version, instead of showing some images for different zoom levels, they actually draw Maps using…

  • Google Street View High-Tech Tricycles are very much real, called “Trike”

    Remember the High Tech Google street view tricycles we told you about? Apparently, the project was very much real. Google is now using these high tech bikes (which they call “trike”) to capture street view for places inaccessible by their street view cars. This includes places like university campuses, beach boardwalks, bike trails etc. Google…

  • Driving directions in Google Maps India

    Driving directions are now available in the web and iPhone versions of Google Maps India.