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Google maps 5 is here!!

Gongadin said:
As far as the 3D buidlings go, they only show up when zoomed in far enough. If you turn the scale bar on in labs, go in to about 200ft and major cities show the buidlings. The tilt is sliding 2 fingers down, and only tilts the view to about a 45 deg angle.

The cache doesn't seem like is a setting that can be changed, but I'm showing about 35 megs of cache stored right now, and I did a ton of looking around yesterday. I think they said it would store your most recent locations, so I'm sure old cache is changed out for new periodically, depending on where you look.
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Ok, I was just using the wrong layer. Working now.
 
Would be something else if this worked with the satellite layer. Still really neat though. I don't see myself using this very often but neat none the less.
 
Rdjr74 said:
Would be something else if this worked with the satellite layer. Still really neat though. I don't see myself using this very often but neat none the less.
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It does, in some places and to a degree... not perfect, but I was able to check my back yard and see the rear side wall of the house.. smooshed a little :)

(outside San Jose FYI)
 
msjulie said:
It does, in some places and to a degree... not perfect, but I was able to check my back yard and see the rear side wall of the house.. smooshed a little :)

(outside San Jose FYI)
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The satellite takes the image at an angle. This gives a Point Of View to the map (compresses/expands angles, moves shadows, etc). As you rotate the image, you see the shift away-from/towards this perspective. I'm pretty sure that's what you're talking about.
 
euph_22 said:
The satellite takes the image at an angle. This gives a Point Of View to the map (compresses/expands angles, moves shadows, etc). As you rotate the image, you see the shift away-from/towards this perspective. I'm pretty sure that's what you're talking about.
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Could be - I was only commenting that in satellite view you can 2 finger swipe and the view point changes from flat to not-flat :)
 
A lot of what people think is satellite imagery is actually done from airplanes.

I've lived in my new build house for three years until my house finally showed up on Google in July (taken in May, I was half way through building a wall in the garden) then in August/Sept I noticed the pictures had been updated again, this time taken around July (can't pin it down as closely) and Google finally added my street in (the number of companies that told me my street didn't exist because it wasn't on Google yet...)

Any idea on how to increase the cache?
 
Google does not send out airplanes nor does it rent time directly on the satellites. There are companies out there whose sole means of income is taking aerials and selling them. Therefore, Google is at the mercy of those taking the aerials. These companies do analysis on the markets are for updated imagery and they dictate the refresh rate. Google's only control is many thousands of dollars it's going to spend on a given section to update their maps.
 
What layer do you have to be in? I can't get the 3d to work, nor the two finger swipe/tilt.

Do I have to be "navigating", or can I get 3d when searching? Las Vegas is not in 3d for me.

FWIW, I'm on MIUI
 
GoinOnTilt said:
What layer do you have to be in? I can't get the 3d to work, nor the two finger swipe/tilt.

Do I have to be "navigating", or can I get 3d when searching? Las Vegas is not in 3d for me.

FWIW, I'm on MIUI
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rotate, and tilt should work on any layar and zoom level. 3d only works for the for the basic maps road layer (uncheck satellite, traffic, etc). And you have to be zoomed in alot, less than 200ft.
 
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