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November 29, 2007
New Google Maps Feature
Google has added a "Terrain" button to its maps and taken away the "Hybrid" button. If you click on the "Satellite" button a checkbox appears underneath it that allows you turn labels on or off. With labels turned on you get the same old view you would get with hybrid view.
Terrain view is not a photograph, like satellite view, but shows topographical features much better than the plain map view. Here are three screen grabs illustrating, respectively, terrain view, satellite view and the map view of Desert Hot Springs:
Terrain View
Satellite View (labels turned on)
UPDATE: The terrain view of Manhattan is very different.
Filed under Technology | permalink | November 29, 2007 at 12:10 PM
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