Google Maps

Google Maps does not provide the historical imagery view feature that is available in Google Earth. To see past imagery you must use Google Earth.

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Usually rivers or canals.

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Google Maps offers several advantages, including real-time navigation, detailed geographic information, and user-generated content such as reviews and photos, which enhance the travel experience. However, it has disadvantages, such as privacy concerns related to location tracking, potential inaccuracies in data, and dependency on internet connectivity for full functionality. Additionally, heavy reliance on the app can lead to reduced local knowledge and exploration.

Google Maps automatically displays place names in the local language of each country. While you cannot change the language of the place names, you can search for some major cities and locations in a number of different languages. In Google Maps there is a settings icon on the bottom-right of the map. Click setings icon and select "Search settings" and pick languages for list of languages including Chinese,

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Google maps are free to use for finding driving directions and distances from one location to another. Google maps also provide street level views which can be very useful for reviewing neighborhoods when comparison shopping for purchasing a new home.

Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth launched in 2007.

if u have an account with google, (it still works if u haven't, u juz leave this first sentence out), when u sign in u will see a tab labelled, 'maps' just below toolbars, along with 'images', 'documents', 'gmail', etc.

choose 'maps' and then clik on the 'earth', ' map' , or 'satellite' and u will be presented with a drop down menu.

choose the item that 'reads/says' english' with a greyed out tick to it's left-hand side.

left-clik on it and the all of the names that were labelling all of the country'z, city'z, town'z of the world, outside your own country will now be re-labelled with the host country's written language, including; the coutry's that have symbols such as; kata-kana for japan, cyrillic for russia, n' khmer n' isan based languages for cambodia, n' thailand etc.

so in short each country and all of it'z; city'z, town'z, village'z, landmark's etc will now be renamed and printed, ie: transliterated into the language of, 'that' particular country, region or part of the world. i hope that is clear and helpful ;-/

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You can load KML (with points, lines, polygons, etc.) either directly on Google Maps website or via the Google Maps API.

Google Maps supports KML via the Google Maps API. See related links below for details.

The classic Google Maps interface supports KML via the search query. Just enter a URL to a KML file in search box and Google Maps will load the KML and render on the map, but this only works in the classic Google Maps interface.

To create an inset map on Google Maps, first, open Google My Maps and create a new map. Zoom in on the area you want to feature as your inset and use the "Draw a line" tool to outline the specific region. You can then add a marker or shape to highlight this area on your main map. Finally, customize the inset map by adjusting colors and labels as needed before saving and sharing your map.

Almost all of the "streets" in Venice are canals, as boats there serve the same purpose as cars and buses in land cities. It would not be impossible to equip a boat to do the same job as cars do, to create Street Views. It just hasn't been done yet.