With the launch of Google Maps 6.0, {link no longer active} users of mobile devices running Android OS 2.1 and up will have the ability to use Google Maps not just to get directions to an IKEA, Macy’s or one of several airports, but to use the mapping functionality to figure out how to find housewares, ATMs, and your flight gate once you are inside. Google’s inside mapping will work similarly to its outside mapping. A little blue dot will move along with you to show you where you are, and the technology is even able to know what floor you are on – “the third dimension of mapping.” Google’s launch partners include 18 U.S. airports — notably some of the biggies, such as Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and San Francisco International Airport (obviously) — LAX and JFK are still not available. Some of the big-box stores such as IKEA, Macy’s, Bloomingdales and Home Depot have already been mapped, but not Target or Wal-Mart… yet.
Take A Walkthrough Of The New Google Maps
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