Google Maps iOS update adds tips for newbies, in-line route previews

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Google upgrades its Maps app for Apple devices to add mini route previews with traffic overlays, a Tips and Tricks section for beginners, as well as full language support for Arabic and Hebrew.

Google Maps for Android update includes sponsored hotel results, improved navigation

A quick update of Google Maps for Android features improved navigation with better traffic and route information and improves monetization capabilities of the app by tweaking hotel search results by including sponsored rate and booking links. A new side menu has also been called “Tips and Tricks” that opens up to the Maps help page on your gadget’s browser.

Google Maps makes its triumphant return to iOS

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

iPhone and iPad users can now exhale a collective breath of relief as the much awaited Google Maps app is now available for iOS and it features turn-by-turn directions for free. And yes, Street View is back! Apple was criticised for discontinuing the earlier version of Google Maps (made by Apple) in iOS 6 while it pushed its own Maps application. The new Google Maps is 100% a Google designed app. The 6.7 MB app is available now and each and every iOS user should go download it. Hit jump for more details.

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Google Maps releases 6000 panoramic views from JFK Space Center

With 2012 marking the 50^th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Google has released over 6000 panoramic views from the space center; its single largest Street View collection to date.

Among the images you can now explore online are the Space Shuttle Launch Pad, the Vehicle Assembly Building where you can see the shuttles in their hangars up close, and the Launch Firing Room from which the shuttles are controlled.

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