The indoors mapping space is heating up with both Google and Microsoft expanding their coverage of interior locations in international regions. full story ![]()

A new glimpse at the updated Google Maps, expected to be revealed at Google I/O this week, has been leaked ahead of schedule, with a hastily-pulled sign-up page for the location service spilling a batch of new screenshots. Signs of a new version of Google Maps, with refreshed graphics and new functionality, emerged earlier this ...
slashgear.com (8 days ago)

This week Google I/O 2013‘s single keynote session focused not just on Chrome and Android, but on Google Maps as well. In an update that Google simply calls “The new Google Maps” and won’t be available to all users until later this year. Developers attending Google I/O 2013 as well as those that get early ...
slashgear.com (8 days ago)

Apple has acquired WiFiSlam, a start-up company that helps improve the accuracy of indoor maps and other services. Indoor maps look poised to become a new battleground between big tech companies.
nytimes.com (2 months ago)

A futuristic vision of Google Maps has been shown by the company this week at Google I/O 2013, the event set for developers but aimed at the public. Google spoke up about “The New Google Maps”, as they called it, complete with expansions built around the user – each individual, that is. Exploring will be ...
slashgear.com (8 days ago)

Google’s Hugo Barra is on stage right now at Google I/0 2013, and he’s talking about Google Play Services, with the Google Maps API being one of the first to come into fruition. The company just launched even more location APIs for Google Maps that come with faster and more precise location awareness and geofencing ...
slashgear.com (8 days ago)
Filed under: Investing Even though Google is undeniably the mobile mapping king, Apple isn't giving up so easily. That's why Apple has acquired WifiSLAM, a small start-up specializing in indoor GPS, since the next frontier of mobile mapping is inside. iOS users quickly snapped up the new version of Google Maps once it was released on Apple's platform in December, just months...
dailyfinance.com (2 months ago)

The Photosphere app actually has a relevant use now that Google announced at the IO conference that its Maps service will use the 360 degree images for tours. The new Google Maps enables impressive user-generated tours of landmarks via Photosphere, with pictures showing up at the bottom of the new Maps design. A 3D model of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome was shown off using...
techradar.com (8 days ago)
Google Maps are getting personal. The next version of the widely used maps tool, previewed on Wednesday at the Google i/o conference in San Francisco, will soon have a different look and some splashy new features including displays of real-time accidents and personalized recommendations.
cnn.com (7 days ago)
With its I/O Developers Conference in full swing on Wednesday, Google took the wraps off its redesign of Google Maps for mobile devices. As revealed in an earlier leak, Google Maps has been updated with a brand new layout, new search features and new ways to highlight the “things that matter most.” The latest version of Google Maps for mobile devices is fully integrated with...
yahoo.com (8 days ago)

Google has released the Google Map Maker in the UK meaning that anyone can become a 'citizen cartographer' by adding detailed local knowledge to Google Maps.
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