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My Maps is a feature in Google Maps launched in April 2007 that enables users to create custom maps for personal use or sharing. Users can add points, lines, shapes, notes and images on top of Google Maps using a WYSIWYG editor. [ 101 ]
Google Maps: A mapping service that indexes streets and displays satellite and street-level imagery, providing directions and local business search. Google My Maps: A social custom map making tool based on Google Maps. Google Earth: A virtual 3D globe that uses satellite imagery, aerial photography, GIS from Google's repository. Google Street View
Google Map Maker was a map editing service launched by Google in June 2008. [2] In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions were used to increase map quality. Changes to Google Map Maker were intended to appear on Google Maps only after sufficient review by
Google says the updates will make it easier for users to plan, and will give users a new way to search. The map navigation app, operated by Google — a company that boasts control over a vast ...
This new style of web mapping is resolution independent, and also has the advantage of dynamically showing and hiding features depending on the interaction. WMS servers generate maps using parameters for user options such as the order of the layers, the styling and symbolization, the extent of the data, the data format, the projection, etc. The ...
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for US-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America. The change follows an executive order by US ...
The Maps for Wikipedia page is an overview of different formats and tools for maps available on Wikipedia. The Map conventions page provides advice for creating and improving maps. The Map workshop page can be used to add your map requests and your sources. A graphist will create the requested map.