Google Maps Getting Refreshed
Google Maps is getting a refresh this year, with upgrades to location capability, weather and routing models, blogged Dane Glasgow, Google Maps vice president-product. Live View is coming to indoor places that are tricky to navigate, including airports, transit stations…
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and malls. Indoor navigation will be enabled by localization, which uses AI to scan “tens of billions” of Google Street View images to determine a user’s orientation, Glasgow wrote Tuesday. Advances “help us understand the precise altitude and placement of objects inside a building,” he said. Data comes from AirNow.gov, the Central Pollution Board, the Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Lab and The Weather Co., and the app works with other companies' services.