Google Maps 6.0 includes indoor mapping of Macy's, IKEA, airports

Release Date 30 Nov, 2011 in Los Angeles Times

 
   
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Google Maps now works indoors

Telegraph.co.uk - 30 Nov, 2011
The latest version of Google Maps for Android now includes data on indoor areas as well as outdoors. By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor Writing on the Google Blog, Brian McClendon, Vice President of Engineering for Google Earth and Maps, ...

Google Maps for Android Adds Indoor Maps of Malls, Airports and Stores

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). ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 â€" 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 see layouts of O'Hare and ...

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 â€" 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) â€" 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 ...

Google Maps 6.0 for Android brings indoor localisation

Generation NT (US) - 30 Nov, 2011
With version 6.0 for Android, Google Maps has attempted indoor positioning â€" the next challenge of localisation. Geo-location technologies have made a lot of progress over the last few years, optimising the reactivity of systems (precision, ...

Google upgrades Google Maps app for smartphone users

Parda Phash - 30 Nov, 2011
California: Google has been remembered for different services including search engine, Google plus (G+), map, latitude etc. from a long time. But, this time Google came under discussion for its upgradtion made under free of cost Google maps services. ...

 

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