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By NEOMAX on Apr 5, 2011 |Technology
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Google Maps is an online map application which was earlier known as Google Local. This is a non commercial web service that provides various types of map based services like Google Ride Finder, Google Maps website, Google Transit. This service is also embedded with different types of third-party websites related to maps. These third-party website use the Google Maps Application Programmable Interface to integrate themselves with it. You can get the facility of route planner if you want to travel. You can get benefit from it if you are traveling through a public bus, you are on car or you are on foot. Google provide these services by taking satellite images time by time.
Google Maps also use almost the same technology as Mercator Projections uses, so Google Maps is also unable to track phone which are around the poles. This service has also a related product which is popularly known as Google Earth. This is a stand-alone program which is more accurate with respect to Global Viewing Features. Google Earth is able to show the areas around the poles. Various Cities of United States of America like Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto and Rico can be viewed through high resolution images provided by this web map application. We can also see Sinai, Sahara Desert and Egypt Nile Valley through high resolution images provided by this technology.
JavaScript is extensively used in Google Maps as Google has used it in many of its other applications. When any user drags any maps, the map or the grid is downloaded from the server and drags in the page of the user. When any one wants to have any business search, the maps are downloaded in side panel and use of JavaScript technology forbids the web page to reloads. The desired location is dynamically drawn on the top of image.
There are many countries that are not happy with this service. As they have the opinion that terrorists can also use such kind of services in the planning of their cell phone tracker. So Google Maps solved this situation by blurring the security related areas. It is important to note that all areas of the world neither are nor covered through high resolution images. The areas those are less populated are usually in less resolution. Clouds are also the factor of images of less resolution.
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