{"id":70970,"date":"2009-12-08T11:41:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-Maps-Adds-Aerial-Imagery-in-Select-Cities-129178.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-08T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:41:02","slug":"google-maps-adds-aerial-imagery-in-select-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/70970","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Adds Aerial Imagery in Select Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google wants to recreate the world online, at least that’s what it looks like, as it’s been adding all manner of imagery and data to Google Maps. At first, it was satellite imagery of most parts of the world making for a very interesting perspective one that wasn’t available for the public prior to that. Later it started to include Street View images to get a feel for the locations from the ground level. And finally it is now gathering aerial images of major cities around the world in an effort to add yet another perspective. These images aren’t live yet, but Google is making a first step by letting developers access them in two cities in the US, San Jose and San Diego. <\/p>\n

“Starting today, developers will have access through the Google Maps API to high-resolution overhead imagery that is presented in a new aerial perspective. This is currently available in 2 spots in California: San Jose and San Diego,” Randy Wilson and Manish Patel, Google Imagery Team, wrote. <\/p>\n

“This new perspective gives users the ability to tilt their view of the world. In addition to seeing hotel rooftops like in our current “satellite” view, users can now see both the rooftop and sides of the hotel at an angle. In fact, users can rotate around all the sides of a hotel to get 4 different views from back to front,&rdqu… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google wants to recreate the world online, at least that’s what it looks like, as it’s been adding all manner of imagery and data to Google Maps. At first, it was satellite imagery of most parts of the world making for a very interesting perspective one that wasn’t available for the public prior to that. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}