Google Maps is a web application that provides satellite imagery and maps of locations around the world. It offers directions, views of the moon and sky, biking routes, Street View, weather, and allows other applications to integrate maps. Users can get turn-by-turn directions between places, view street-level panoramas with Street View, and check live weather conditions globally. Third-party sites like Panoramio and Globe Genie also incorporate Google Maps technology.

1. GOOGLE MAPS
Bruce Perry
9/18/12

2. What is Google Maps?
 Google maps is a web application that uses
satellite imagery for many different purposes.
 High-resolution images of any location in the
world (other than some secure facilities).
 Many device such as cell phones or IPods,
and many other third party companies use
Google maps for their own applications.

3. Different Uses
 Directions
 Google Moon
 Google Sky
 Biking Directions
 Google Street View
 Weather
 Mashups using Google Maps

4. Directions
 Search directions to and from any location.
 Easy to use:
 Go to https://maps.google.com/
 Click “Get directions”
 Enter desired locations to find directions to/from
 Select transportation method
 Route will be shown to desired location

5. Google Moon
 Google Moon allows you to observe images of
Moon’s surface while using the Google Maps
interface.
 Pinpoints the location of all the Apollo mission
landings and other points of interest.

6. Google Sky
 As if looking at the night sky, Google Sky
allows you to pan across space.
 Google Sky uses images from the Hubble
telescope.
 There is also a feature that points out where
the constellations are.

7. Biking Directions
 Google Maps now gives users the opportunity
to search for bike paths and other bike friendly
locations.
 Google’s Biking Directions also shows the
terrain, elevation, length, etc. of desired path.

8. Google Street View
 Google Street View allows users to observe
images, of most streets, as if driving down that
street.
 Google has teamed up with NASA allowing
users to take a tour of the Kennedy Space
Center using Google Street View’s interface.

9. Weather
 While in still in Google Maps, by changing the
view to weather you can observe the weather
conditions of any location in the world.

10. Mashups using Google Maps
 Panoramio – a photo sharing website that
shows location of photo through Google Maps.
 Globe Genie – with the use of Street View it
brings you to a random location in the world.

11. Work Cited
 http://www.google.com/moon/
 http://www.google.com/sky/
 http://maps.google.com/
 http://www.panoramio.com/map/
 http://www.globegenie.com/