Google Maps si aggiorna alla versione 5.7 e soddisfa quasi totalmente la richiesta di migliaia di utenti: la navigazione offline. A partire da oggi infatti sarà possibile scaricare una porzione di mappa direttamente offline senza bisogno di connettersi.

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Google ha annunciato una nuova ed interessante funzionalità per Google Maps, sia per la versione desktop che quella mobile, utile per chi ogni giorno si sposta in città con i mezzi pubblici, dal momento che offre la possibilità di consultarne, dettagliatamente, la situazione in tempo reale: Live Transit.

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Want a wall-sized satellite view of your neighborhood? A full-page street map of the town you're visiting? Google Map Buddy, a free, portable map maker, grabs data from Google Maps and arranges it exactly how you want it.
When you un-zip and run Google Map Buddy, it asks you to choose your Google Map nationality, then opens a browser to let you search out the location you're looking at. Once you get there, hit "Select area," then draw a rectangle around the area you want to capture. After fine-tuning the zoom level and hitting "Create Map Image," Map Buddy goes to work grabbing, tile by tile, your area's map. It generates a generally high-resolution PNG of your area, and provides the individual map tiles to keep and arrange yourself into a larger grid, if you'd like.

The software itself can be described as "picky"—you have to "X" out any particular business or destination that pops up in a dialog box on the map, and after zooming in on the Google Map browser to your destination, Map Buddy asks you for a deeper zoom level than what you've already set. So it's not an elegant tool, exactly, but it does deliver the very printable, full-picture map of your destination.

Map Buddy is a free download for Windows systems only, and doesn't require installation.

The Google Map Buddy [Augmented Reality Software via The Red Ferret Journal]