Google Maps entire town and offline 3D mode for android

Google just made a series of announcements designed to make its mapping service, Google Maps, continue to advance and maintain its leading position with the threat of Apple this your alternative in the coming weeks. And there is something that seems to haunt the team: mobile devices. Now that Apple is abandoning Google Maps as the default in IOS map from Google want the best possible service. And for it have made a big announcement: Google Maps on Android will be available offline in the coming weeks.

Also, since Google still want to cover absolutely everyone with Street View, something they could not do alone with cars. "The wheels alone can take you to some places," said Brian McClendon, vice president of engineering for Google Maps, in the post announcing the news. The solution? Street View Trekker, adaptation of the entire camera crew so that it fits "into a backpack" so it can be a person on foot who transport.

Also new is the announcement of the arrival of the third dimension of Google Earth also for mobile devices, which made "through a combination of new techniques of imaging and computer vision allow us to automatically create urban landscapes 3D.” When can we see this? According to the post, later this year expect to have 3D images of "metropolitan areas with a total population of 300 million inhabitants."

Furthermore, with the aim of mapping service is increasingly necessary, since Google announced the extension of Map Maker, map editing tool, ten new countries.

With all this new string of news and ads Google seems to be trying to tell Apple they do not know what they're missing to abandon them. What Cupertino firm offer instead? Will there a map service to the level of Google Maps? Not long to find out.