Google Maps
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Type of site | Web mapping |
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| Available in | 74 languages |
List of languages Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Indonesian, Malay, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German (Germany), Estonian, English (United States), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Basque, Filipino, French (France), Galician, Croatian, Zulu, Icelandic, Italian, Swahili, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Uzbek, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Albanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Macedonian, Mongolian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Amharic, Nepali, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Thai, Lao, Burmese, Khmer, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese | |
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| URL | google |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional, included with aGoogle Account |
| Launched | February 8, 2005 |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | C++(back-end),JavaScript,XML,Ajax(UI) |
Google Mapsis amappingwebsite fromGoogle,and also the name for thetechnologythat it works on. It providessatellitepictures androad mapsfor anywhere in the world.
Google Maps also shows the locations of manyplacesandbusinesses(calledpoints of interest). It can providestreet addresses,phone numbers,andURLsto their websites. It can generate directions between different places using many ways oftransport,such as bycar,bike,public transport,and even byair,and showtraffic congestion.Maps can be embedded on other websites via the Google MapsApplication programming interface.It has a feature calledGoogle Street View,which provides photos of streets in some places so one can see what it is like if they were standing in that area of theEarthin real life.
Google Maps was started on February 8, 2005, and usesJavaScript,XMLandAJAX.Its website works in almost anyweb browseror throughmobile applicationson platforms likeiOSandAndroid.Google has a "Local Guides" program where anybody can writereviewsand uploadphotosorvideosof places, as well as make changes to the maps (such as adding new places or removing closed places). This is much like how a person can contribute toGoogle Translateor toWikipediaand otherWikimedia Foundationwebsites.
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