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1. Google Maps

   Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air (in beta) and public transportation. As of 2020, Google Maps was being used by over 1 billion people every month around the world.Google Maps began as a C++ desktop program developed by brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application. After additional acquisitions of a geospatial data visualization company and a real-time traffic analyzer, Google Maps was launched in February 2005. The service's front end utilizes JavaScript, XML, and Ajax. Google Maps offers an API that allows maps to be embedded on third-party websites, and offers a locator for businesses and other organizations in numerous countries around the world. Google Map Maker allowed users to collaboratively expand and update the service's mapping worldwide but was discontinued from March 2017. However, crowdsourced contributions to Google Maps were not discontinued as the company announced those features would be transferred to the Google Local Guides program. Google Maps' satellite view is a "top-down" or bird's-eye view; most of the high-resolution imagery of cities is aerial photography taken from aircraft flying at 800 to 1,500 feet (240 to 460 m), while most other imagery is from satellites. Much of the available satellite imagery is no more than three years old and is updated on a regular basis, according to a 2011 report. Google Maps previously used a variant of the Mercator projection, and therefore could not accurately show areas around the poles. In August 2018, the desktop version of Google Maps was updated to show a 3D globe. It is still possible to switch back to the 2D map in the settings. Google Maps for Android and iOS devices was released in September 2008 and features GPS turn-by-turn navigation along with dedicated parking assistance features. In August 2013, it was found to be the world's most popular smartphone app, with over 54% of global smartphone owners using it.In May 2017, the app was reported to have 2 billion users on Android, along with several other Google services including YouTube, Chrome, Gmail, Search, and Google Play.

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1. Google Maps

   Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bike, or with public transportation and a locator for urban businesses in numerous countries around the world. Google Maps satellite images are not updated in real time, but rather they are several months or years old. Google Maps uses a close variant of the Mercator projection, so it cannot show areas around the poles. A related product is Google Earth, a stand-alone program which offers more globe-viewing features, including showing polar areas.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of google maps in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of google maps in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of google maps in a Sentence

1. Djassi Julien:

   In Los Angeles, which is more of a satellite office, Kyle Ewing can see very clearly the lack of diversity in engineering that is still present in the industry, i really appreciate the effort Google Maps has expended so far in making diversity a priority, but I just think there is so much more work to be done.

2. Mat Matthews:

   It's like Google Maps but 100 times better.

3. Steven Keating:

   With Google Maps, you want to go to the mall, you type it in, it’ll tell you bus, train, walk, bike. It’ll show you different routes and give you different information about the routes. You can plan out your journey based on other’s experiences, in medicine, there’s none of that, so you don’t really know where you are or how you want to get there. You want to get healthy, but you’re not sure how to get there.

4. Gideon Groenewald:

   I open Google maps and look for the lines of trees. I ask God in prayer which lines hold water, then I go down to that GPS location, you see the stick moving where the magnetic field is? There's water here.

5. Lifelong New Yorker Andy Maskin:

   It’s about an hour and change from the nearest interstate. It is far. And you look at Google maps and it’s just this cute little town and they have a website with a video with the motto that says ‘Life as it should be,’ and that really appealed to me because it’s so different from my way of life.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=google maps