Google Maps Goes into 3D mode,offline access

Google has announced the ‘next dimension’ to its Google Earth with bringing in of new and awesome 3D imaging with “automated technology to extract 3D from aerial images.”and Google map will soon be available in offline mode

With the 3D imaging arriving to the Google Earth, Google Maps is going to get an offline mode which would help users to use the Maps when they do not have Wi-Fi or cellular connectivity.

Google begin adding 3D models to entire metropolitan areas to Google Earth on mobile devices. This is possible thanks to a combination of google new imagery rendering techniques and computer vision that let us automatically create 3D cityscapes, complete with buildings, terrain and even landscaping, from 45-degree aerial imagery. By the end of the year Google aim to have 3D coverage for metropolitan areas with a combined population of 300 million people.

The 3D  technology will be available to “several cities” in the States at an upcoming launch in the next several weeks. Peter Birch, a product manager for Google Earth, claimed that the 3D technology will cover metropolitan areas totaling about 300 million people by the end of the year – the Greater London metropolitan area, by way of comparison, has just under 8 million people.”

Google executives positioned the new 3D technology as complementary to its fleet of Street View tricycles and cars, which have traversed cities across the globe, parks, the Amazon River, and the world’s finest art museums. Recently, Google has taken its Maps and Street View indoors, adding geo-location capabilities. Google even showed off a new, personal version of its Street View technology, dubbed Trekker, which will allow a hiker to map more areas where even bikes or snowmobiles cannot reach.