Google Maps

Google Maps

Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle and air (in beta), or public transportation. In 2020, Google Maps was used by over 1 billion people every month.Google Maps began as a C++ desktop program at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application. After additional acquisitions of a geospatial data visualization company and a realtime traffic analyzer, Google Maps was launched in February 2005. The service's front end utilizes JavaScript, XML, and Ajax. Google Maps offers an API that allows maps to be embedded on third-party websites, and offers a locator for businesses and other organizations in numerous countries around the world. Google Map Maker allowed users to collaboratively expand and update the service's mapping worldwide but was discontinued from March 2017. However, crowdsourced contributions to Google Maps were not discontinued as the company announced those features would be transferred to the Google Local Guides program.Google Maps' satellite view is a "top-down" or bird's-eye view; most of the high-resolution imagery of cities is aerial photography taken from aircraft flying at 800 to 1,500 feet (240 to 460 m), while most other imagery is from satellites. Much of the available satellite imagery is no more than three years old and is updated on a regular basis. Google Maps used a variant of the Mercator projection, and therefore could not accurately show areas around the poles. In August 2018, the desktop version of Google Maps was updated to show a 3D globe. It is still possible to switch back to the 2D map in the settings. Google Maps for Android and iOS devices was released in September 2008 and features GPS turn-by-turn navigation along with dedicated parking assistance features. In August 2013, it was determined to be the world's most popular app for smartphones, with over 54% of global smartphone owners using it at least once.In 2012, Google reported having over 7,100 employees and contractors directly working in mapping.In May 2017, the app has reported to have 2 billion users on Android, along with several other Google services including YouTube, Chrome, Gmail, Search, and Google Play, Google Maps reached over 1 billion monthly users.

Google Maps je sveobuhvatna navigacijska aplikacija koja korisnicima pruža detaljne karte i informacije u stvarnom vremenu kako bi im pomogla da se efikasnije kreću svijetom. Nudi niz značajki dizajniranih za poboljšanje iskustva putovanja, uključujući planiranje ruta, ažuriranja prometa i prikaze ulica. Aplikacija omogućuje korisnicima da istražuju lokacije koristeći uronjene poglede koji kombiniraju zračne slike, prikaz ulice i žive podatke poput vremenskih i prometnih uvjeta. Ova značajka pomaže korisnicima da vizualiziraju svoje rute na zanimljiviji i informativniji način.

Google Maps također uključuje alate za pretraživanje lokalnih poduzeća i atrakcija. Koristi AI analizu slike na AI za pružanje fotografija utemeljenih na fotografijama, što olakšava otkrivanje mjesta poput kafića ili orijentira. Uz to, aplikacija nudi mogućnosti proširene stvarnosti (AR) kroz značajku "leće u kartama", koja označava interesne točke u stvarnom vremenu koristeći kameru vašeg uređaja.

Za putnike, Google Maps nudi uvid u najprometnija vremena na popularnim odredištima i sugerira najekonomičnije rute za putovanja automobila. Podržava više načina prijevoza, uključujući hodanje, vožnju i javni prijevoz, osiguravajući da korisnici mogu odabrati najprikladniju opciju za svoje potrebe. Sve u svemu, Google Maps je svestran alat koji kombinira navigaciju, istraživanje i lokalno otkriće kako bi putovanja i pronalaženje mjesta lakšim i ugodnijim.

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