Google My Maps
In April 2007, My Maps was a new feature added to Google’s local search maps. My Maps lets users and businesses create their own map by positioning markers, polylines and polygons onto a map. The interface is a straightforward overlay on the map. A set of eighty-four pre-designed markers is available, ranging from [ Read More ]
On May 25, 2007, Google released Street View, a new feature of Google Maps which provides 360? panoramic street-level views of various U.S. cities. On this date, the feature only included five cities, but has since expanded to twenty-three, with plans for more U.S. and Canadian cities in the future. Some cities, like San Francisco, [ Read More ]
In version 4.2, released August 22, 2007, Google Earth added a Sky tool for viewing stars and astronomical images.
Google Sky is produced by Google through a partnership with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Alberto Conti and his co-developer Dr. Carol Christian of the [ Read More ]
Like many other map services, Google Maps can generate driving directions between any pair of locations in the United States and Canada, as well as many other countries. It shows turn-by-turn instructions, an estimate of the trip time, and the distance between the two locations. Since July 2007, a user can drag any point on [ Read More ]
