Google Takes Maps to Next Level

Google Maps, already the de facto standard for online and mobile maps, is breaking new ground with added capabilities announced on Wednesday at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco.

Maps will get 3D views, speech recognition, enhanced voice search capabilities and will leverage artificial intelligence, among other things. Google Maps for mobile is also being enhanced.

The company is also added to Google Now, and it is stepping up its push into the education market.

"Google Maps are now well beyond the competition in the consumer space, not only for what they announced but for street views, the new 3D views, integrated social aspects and recommendations, new routing, and the list goes on," Brian Blau, a research director at Gartner  FULL ARTICLE AT TECHNEWSWORLD