Google Maps for Android Heads Indoors With Ikea, Macy's

Release Date 30 Nov, 2011 in eWeek

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Google Maps for Android Adds Indoor Maps of Malls and Airports TIME - 30 Nov, 2011 Last weekend, I picked up an airport map, hopelessly lost and wandering around the terminals. If only I had the latest version of Google Maps (and data roaming, but I digress). ...
New version of Google Maps brings indoor floor plans to your phone CNN - 30 Nov, 2011 Google has partnered with major airports, as well as giant retailers like Macy's and Bloomingdale's. (WIRED) -- Google's Maps team has made fantastic advances in surveying and mapping seemingly every square inch of navigable ground ...
Attention, mallrats: Google maps floor plans for Android users Register - 30 Nov, 2011 By Team Register • Get more from this author Google is helping users of its Android handset navigate their way around buildings such as airports, shopping malls and retail stores in the US and Japan. The ad broker announced that its Google Maps 6.0 ...
	Streets ahead ... new indoor guides The Sun - 30 Nov, 2011 By DAVE MASTERS GOOGLE Maps today launched an INDOOR version of their popular software to help guide people around places like shopping centres and airports. It automatically displays detailed floor plans of buildings and can even tell which floor you ...
Google Maps gets taken indoors Inquirer - 30 Nov, 2011 INTERNET SEARCH GIANT Google has announced that the latest version of its Google Maps app can help you navigate around indoors. Version 6.0 of Google Maps for Android devices is now available and includes indoor mapping and tracking. ...
	Google Maps goes indoors Moneycontrol.com - 30 Nov, 2011 Google Maps is useful when you're walking in an unfamiliar territory. It gives you a pin for your position with a blue circle around it and a pin for your destination, too. Your pin also moves along with you (provided you have your mobile device's GPS ...
Google Maps get new features Times of India - 30 Nov, 2011 Google's free online mapping service has begun helping people navigate inside airports, transit centers, and major shops in the United States and Japan. CALIFORNIA: Google's free online mapping service has begun helping people navigate inside airports, ...
Google Maps 6.0 includes indoor mapping of Macy's, IKEA, airports Los Angeles Times - 30 Nov, 2011 With the launch of Google Maps 6.0 on Tuesday, users of mobile devices running Android OS 2.1 and up will have the ability to use Google Maps not just to get directions to an IKEA, Macy's or one of several airports, but to use the mapping functionality ...
	Latest Google mapping service to include indoor directions at airports, malls NEWS.com.au - 30 Nov, 2011 From: AP The Guylian cafe in Sydney is one of the businesses to sign up to the new mapping service. Picture: Google Source: news.com.au GOOGLE'S next frontier in digital mapping will span the world's shopping malls and airports. ...
	Google Maps goes indoors AFP - 30 Nov, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO �" Google's free online mapping service on Tuesday began helping people navigate inside airports, transit centers, and major shops in the United States and Japan. The latest version of Google Maps for smartphones powered by Android ...
Google Maps brings O'Hare and Midway to your hand Chicago Tribune - 30 Nov, 2011 Google might slowly be taking over our lives (and I could mean this literally), but at least life is getting simpler. Thanks to the company's indoor mapping project, which launches today, anyone with an Android phone can ...
Google Maps heads for the great indoors CBS News - 30 Nov, 2011 If you, like your correspondent, belong to the ranks of the hopelessly directionally-challenged, the spread of GPS technologies to smartphones has been a godsend. So that solves the problem posed getting from Point A to B while you're driving. ...
Google's maps go indoors with new mobile feature Economic Times - 30 Nov, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO: Google's next frontier in digital mapping will span the world's shopping malls and airports. An upgrade of Google's mobile mapping service released Tuesday includes directions within stores, malls, airports and transit centers in the US ...
Google Maps 6.0 for Android smartphones updated with indoor maps YouTube - 30 Nov, 2011 Google Maps for Android just got an update to version 6.0. Indoor maps (beta) are now available for select airports, shopping malls, and more. Currently, only some places in Japan and the US are supported. In this video, you can see Macy's floor plans ...
	Google will help you find the bathrooms at IAH Houston Chronicle (blog) - 30 Nov, 2011 Google Maps has long showed you where you are when traveling along streets and highways. Now, the search giant's location service can show you where you are inside some buildings �" including Houston's Bush Intercontinental and William P. Hobby airports ...
Updated Google Maps for Android Goes Indoors PC Magazine - 30 Nov, 2011 The Google Maps mobile app can help people navigate streets, landmarks, parks, and other outside locations all over the world, but Google's new updated maps app for Android will help you get around inside, too. ...
	Google Maps 6.0 goes indoors CNET (blog) - 30 Nov, 2011 Instead of just dropping you off at the front door of your destination, the improved app is now helping you find your way around the inside of the building. Once you've stepped into a ...
Locations in US where Google's new indoor maps feature is available Washington Post - 30 Nov, 2011 These are the locations in the US where Google's new indoor maps feature is available: Airports: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, California (SJC) O'Hare International Airport, ...
Android Google Maps app now features indoor maps Washington Post - 30 Nov, 2011 Google Maps for Android 6.0 just hit Android Market, and it's a pretty big update: it adds indoor maps of select airports, malls, and retail stores in the US and Japan. Highlights of the initial list include the Mall of America, Chicago's O'Hare and ...
Summary Box: Google's maps go indoors at major stores, shopping malls, airports Washington Post - 30 Nov, 2011 THE GREAT INDOORS: Google's mobile mapping service now includes directions within stores, malls, airports and transit centers in the US and Japan. WHAT'S AVAILABLE: Only a small fraction of indoor locations for now. Google Inc. is hoping more owners ...
Google's maps go indoors with new mobile feature Sydney Morning Herald - 30 Nov, 2011 An upgrade of Google's mobile mapping service released Tuesday includes directions within stores, malls, airports and transit centers in the US and Japan. The initial index only covers a small fraction of the great indoors, but Google Inc. is hoping ...
Google Maps Now Saves People Who Get Easily Lost Indoors San Francisco Chronicle - 30 Nov, 2011 Version 6.0 for Android was released today and it helps people navigate indoors too. Google has partnered with Mall of America, IKEA, The Home Depot, airports and department stores to guide people through their interiors. Need a bathroom or an exit? ...
Google's maps go indoors with new mobile feature CanadianBusiness.com - 30 Nov, 2011 By AP \| November 29, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) �" Google's next frontier in digital mapping will span the world's shopping malls and airports. An upgrade of Google's mobile mapping service released Tuesday includes directions within stores, malls, ...
Hartsfield-Jackson, Google Maps Make Travel Easier MarketWatch (press release) - 30 Nov, 2011 ATLANTA, Nov 29, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport today became one of the first airports in the world to give Android phone users access to indoor maps in Google Maps. "We are excited to partner with ...
Google Maps App for Android Adds Indoor Floorplans PCWorld - 30 Nov, 2011 Disoriented at Minneapolis' Mall of America? Confused at Tokyo's Narita airport? Can't find the bathrooms at your local Ikea store? The Google Maps application for Android phones and tablets may offer some help. ...
	Google adds indoor maps to Google Maps for Android USA Today - 30 Nov, 2011 Looking for the nearest bathroom in a shopping mall, the men's shop in a department store or the closest ATM at an airport? Consult your phone. With today's launch of Google Maps for Android 6.0, Google is adding indoor ...
Take Google Maps inside the Airport YouTube - ‎Nov 28, 2011‎ More info: http://maps.google.com/starthere Find your way around the airport using Google Maps on your Android phone. The Google Maps indoor display details the airport's layout, from one terminal to the next. Figure out how to get from the newsstand ...
Indoor Version Of Google Maps Search Engine Roundtable - 30 Nov, 2011 Indoor maps basically helps you navigate large indoor places like airports, malls, large retail stores and more. It let's you find where you need to go and even handles the floor you are on. It is pretty cool. If you own a building and want Google Maps ...
Google Maps for Android Apps TopNews United States - 30 Nov, 2011 “The familiar "blue dot" icon indicates your location within several meters, and when you move up or down a level in a building with multiple floors, the interface will automatically update to display “, explained the search engine giant, Google, ...
	Google Introduces New Features in Mapping Service News Tonight - 30 Nov, 2011 Often it happen when one has no clue where their desired shop is in the airport or which direction to go to for the washroom. But no more, as Google free online mapping has announced about their deal through which they would be able to help people ...