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Seems like Google announced this event out of pure fear, then only later scrounged up some content for it.
by pkulak 14y ago
Seems like Google announced this event out of pure fear, then only later scrounged up some content for it.
- nailer 14y agoThey've already had offline maps in labs for around a year I think - go into labs, enable 'offline caching', click an area, then 'cache for offline' - it'll grab a 10 mile square of the map around the pin. The announcement seems to be that the feature is coming out of beta.
- BHSPitMonkey 14y agoYep. At today's event they revealed the polished version of the feature, which lets you define the area to cache by hand, and provides a formal UI for managing your cached areas and telling you how much data it will require. Here's the demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBJ2Hu0NLw#t=3551s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBJ2Hu0NLw#t=3551s
- BHSPitMonkey 14y agoYeah, I'll agree that the event didn't really seem necessary, though the part of the talk about the products' history and development was interesting, as well as looking at the new Street View devices. The really interesting part for me was at the end, when they showed off their new 3D city modelling efforts. Really amazing stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBJ2Hu0NLw#t=4296s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBJ2Hu0NLw#t=4296s