As we all know, Google Maps introduced Pokémon Challenge on the occasion of April Fools Day in 2014. Using the Google Maps App on your smartphones and iPhones, you could become a Pokémon master if you find all the 150 hidden Pokémons around the world. So, what are you waiting for?
Of course, earlier this year people thought they found Atlantis on Google Maps.Turns out it was a computer glitch. And it’s not the first time amateur archaeologists have “discovered” things that might not be real. A few years ago,Smithsonian Magazinetraveled to Bosnia, where Sam Osmanagi...
Google Maps satellite view is pretty impressive, but it doesn’t provide the detail or the features that Google Earth offers. For example, look at the satellite viewin Google Mapsof a rural house in Maine. The view above is as close as Google Maps lets you zoom into the action. Google ...
Choose from street & satellite maps of the entire world or create a custom map design. The platform is suitable for developers ranging from newbies to experts. Use maps via API Learn more Resolution and scales List of resolutions and scales of a pyramid in Spherical Mercator projection...
“spherical’ hexakis icosahedron). Several of the figures can be positioned within the 62 points of the Grid in more than one way. A tetradhedron, for example, will align in 10 different positions. The UVG Grid maps all of these different possibilities. In the list below, the number in...
I was reminded of that joke today when I saw that maps.google.com now supports real satellite images down to fine detail.A tip for the links I created below, you can click the + zoom in button once to get one more level of detail once the page loads, and you can click down the ...
Mipmaps are collections of bitmap images that work within a texture to create the illusion of depth. They work in an inverted pyramid structure, stacked on each other with each level having twice the resolution of the one under it. These stacks ultimately create a three-dimensional representatio...
Arts & Culture,Google AR & VR,Google in the Middle East,MapsonMay 17, 2022byMariam Khaled Dabboussi Finding more focus this Ramadan Ramadan is one of the most special times of the year. For me, it has always been about extended family (a lot of them!) and food (my favorite being ...
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more than two centuries later, within the decidedly safer confines of building 45 on google's mountain view, california, campus, john hanke clicks the 3-foot image of earth projected on his office wall and spins it around to india. hanke, the director of google earth and google maps, ...