Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Getting lost in the new Google Maps


The day before Google was set to show the world the new version of Maps at last year’s I/O conference in San Francisco, its biggest problem was extraterrestrial. Across a blue, reflective ocean streaked with clouds that were being projected in real time, engineers saw a big black speck. The zoomed-out Google Earth view of the world, which was being integrated into Maps for the first time, appeared to be broken — but it turned out that the bug was a feature.


The new Maps tracks sun and...


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