{"id":311187,"date":"2010-02-12T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=98799"},"modified":"2010-02-12T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T14:03:31","slug":"google-maps-now-has-a-%e2%80%9clabs%e2%80%9d-feature-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/311187","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Now Has a \u201cLabs\u201d Feature Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now Gmail isn’t the only Google offering with a “labs” section that offers experimental features: A reader tipped Google Blogoscoped off<\/a> to the addition of the lab’s green flask icon to Google Maps, which has been given some cool new features as well. Among them are a new “aerial imagery” setting that has been added to the existing map, with terrain and satellite buttons at the top of the map view. While similar to satellite view, it gives viewers a different angle to look at<\/a>, rather than the typical straight-down view that satellite imagery provides. Google says aerial images (which appear to have been taken by a plane) are only available for certain locations though, including — of course — the Googleplex itself, which appears in the photo at the top of this post.<\/p>\n

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The other features that have been added include:<\/p>\n