Does the GPS work indoors?
Google Maps Floor Plans
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#12Taking bets on the odds of this being disallowed for places where it would be actually useful (for example: airports; municipal buildings; skyscrapers).
The competition already has this for airports: http://binged.it/HnKPqO
Compare: http://g.co/maps/8e9xp
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#13Why would this be Android only? Isn't there value at all in having this on a full computer?
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#14How long until someone uses these to make first person shooter game maps automatically? (Using Google Maps outdoor mapping data for games is a great idea, like the tower defense game from a couple days ago).
My Google Maps game idea is a Cannonball Run/Gumball Rally driving game. Players race little cars on Google Maps' road lines. A single-player game would be for point A to B time trials. A game server would all multiple players to race head-to-head. To control the game difficulty, you would choose a map zoom level, giving you access to more shortcuts but requiring more navigation.
The advanced version of this game would use Google Street View for first-person racing!
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#15The view to align the map is very non-intuitive. It would be simply easier to just pick where the map should overlay first and then fine tune the alignment.
agreed, the two-screen, three-point alignment system is finicky and needlessly complex. All you need is pan, scale, and rotate functions to get the job done. Much more intuitive.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is why they're trying to crowd source the maintainership: the idea is that airports and giant retail stores will have a built-in incentive to keep their maps updated. And it might be true. But I'm a little mixed on this. Google maps, while great and useful, isn't an open source project. The data is closed and proprietary and not useful to the community at large. I'd much rather this be done under the umbrella o…
Retail stores are optimized to make you spend the most on each visit. That's why necessities are in the back and far apart from each other. A floor plan goes against the self interest of the store.
Prices will just go up a bit across all items once this available in all/most stores, and the stores will stop relying on suckering us into buying a bit more than we want in order to keep their margins up. That's the small price we'll pay for the added convenience.
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#17How long until someone uses these to make first person shooter game maps automatically? (Using Google Maps outdoor mapping data for games is a great idea, like the tower defense game from a couple days ago).
Well, they'd have the plans, but what about room height, textures, furniture, and other details?
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#18A shame that all of this data is collected "free" for Google, then people are made to pay to access it for their apps in the Maps API.
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#19What's preventing people from uploading incorrect floor plans? Plus, with no standard floor plan format, I don't see how this is useful, beyond showing another helpful picture of a location.
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#20Does the GPS work indoors?
GPS is not accurate in doors. So companies are trying to use wifi stations to triangulate (but what if they moved the wifi stations?)