Google Maps Adds Terrain Layer
Relief maps have finally come — natively, that is — to Google Maps with the release of its “Terrain” layer (the Hybrid layer moves to a checkbox on the Satellite layer, hiding or revealing street data). As is often the case with Google, they aren’t the first — Ask.com, Virtual Earth and Yahoo have had this for some time now — but according to Catholicgauze, “Google wins because of more detail, better zoom, and downright prettiness.”
This will be perfect for my map of hiking trails in the Canadian Rockies.
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The Map Room is a blog about maps by
Loads up with Terrain on.
http://tinyurl.com/2w9crj
created from
(http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=ca&ptab=2&
;ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=113851298115178098118.00000111c3
a0951993296&ll=51.553167,-115.993652&spn=1.176659,2.
570801&t=p&z=9&om=1)
Google also added Community Editing.
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2007/11/google-maps-allow-anyone-to-edit-your.html
Mapperz
November 28, 2007 at 10:41 AM
The shaded relief looks great, but where did the goofy color patterns (shades of green, yellow, and white) come from? On a state-wide scale, these colors seem to correspond to vegetation types, but when you zoom in closer, they don’t correspond to anything like reality.
November 29, 2007 at 9:03 AM