{"id":187,"date":"2008-11-26T05:30:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2021-03-17T00:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:02:03","slug":"changes-at-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/changes-at-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes at Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good folks at Google Maps<\/a> appear to have been busy. The UI for the zoom\/pan control (GLargeMapControl) has been refreshed with a new skin. The process for selecting the position from which to view the neigborhood using the Street View<\/a> feature is simplified – the draggable “person” is always present in the zoom control.<\/p>\n

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New Google Maps Interface<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The entire Street View feature is now a Flash-based application, that takes over the map screen. Previously, the street panorama would be displayed in a Google Maps info window, and was implemented in DHTML.<\/p>\n

The satellite imagery has also been replaced with higher-resolution pictures from the GeoEye Satellite<\/a>, which was launched a couple of months ago. At least that’s the case in my neigborhood, and a couple of other spots I searched in California.<\/p>\n

Even the Street View images have been updated – again, at least in my neigborhood. Check these out elizabethnelsonstudio<\/a> .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Although the new zoom\/pan control does not appear to be available to developers using the Google Maps API<\/a>, the new satellite images are present by default. Hopefully this means that we’ll finally have a globally-consistent maximum zoom level!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The good folks at Google Maps appear to have been busy. The UI for the zoom\/pan control (GLargeMapControl) has been refreshed with a new skin. The process for selecting the position from which to view the neigborhood using the Street View feature is simplified – the draggable “person” is always present in the zoom control. … Continue reading Changes at Google Maps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}