{"id":1785566,"date":"2018-05-09T18:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T22:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785566"},"modified":"2018-05-09T18:57:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T22:57:57","slug":"google-maps-announcements-at-i-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/google-maps-announcements-at-i-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Announcements at I\/O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5232\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/google-maps-abandons-experimental-calorie-counter\/google-maps-icon\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/google-maps-icon.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"google-maps-icon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/google-maps-icon.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/google-maps-icon.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5232\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/google-maps-icon-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/google-maps-icon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/google-maps-icon.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Google unveiled its future plans for Google Maps at its I\/O conference yesterday. They include an augmented reality mode that combines Google&#8217;s Street View and map data with the view through your phone&#8217;s camera and &#8220;assistive and personal&#8221; features that add some artificial intelligence to recommendations and reviews. The social and recommendation features are coming this summer; no word on when or if we&#8217;ll see the <abbr title=\"augmented reality\">AR<\/abbr> mode. <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/18\/05\/08\/google-maps-to-get-augmented-reality-vps-other-improvements\">AppleInsider<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/maps\/explore-around-town-google-maps\/\">Google Blog<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/05\/08\/google-wants-maps-to-be-the-only-thing-you-need-to-plan-a-night\/\">Engadget<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/5\/8\/17332480\/google-maps-augmented-reality-directions-walking-ar-street-view-personalized-recommendations-voting\">The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other Google Maps news from late March: Google announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/maps\/google-maps-learns-39-new-languages\/\">39 new languages were being added to Google Maps<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/03\/20\/google-maps-restaurant-wait-more\/\">restaurant wait times came to the iOS version of Google Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google unveiled its future plans for Google Maps at its I\/O conference yesterday. They include an augmented reality mode that combines Google&#8217;s Street View and map data with the view through your phone&#8217;s camera and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/google-maps-announcements-at-i-o\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[921,462,82],"class_list":["post-1785566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-augmented-reality","tag-google","tag-google-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787588,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/google-maps-gets-augmented-reality-walking-directions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785566,"position":0},"title":"Google Maps Gets Augmented Reality Walking Directions","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 August 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"The augmented reality mode for Google Maps that was teased last year has finally arrived. After an \u201cearly preview\u201d showed up on Google Pixel phones earlier this year, Live View\u2014which superimposes walking directions on the view through your phone\u2019s camera\u2014was made available this week on Google Maps for both iOS\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/google-maps-ios-icon-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5130,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/augmented-reality-comes-to-os-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785566,"position":1},"title":"Augmented Reality Comes to OS Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 October 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The Ordnance Survey's OS Maps mobile app now has a new augmented reality mode. \"Using the phone or tablet\u2019s camera view, hills, mountains, coastal features, lakes, settlements, transport hubs and woodland in the vicinity are identified and labelled. If a label is pressed and there is a data connection, a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/os-maps-ar-large-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/os-maps-ar-large-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/os-maps-ar-large-1024x576.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/os-maps-ar-large-1024x576.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1789480,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/apple-and-google-maps-updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785566,"position":2},"title":"Apple and Google Maps Updates","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 October 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Apple Maps AppleInsider looks at how cycling directions work in iOS 14. 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