Google Maps for iOS downloaded 10M times in first 48 hours

Google has released a maps app for iOS.

In this tutorial I show you how you can use Google maps to measure objects on the ground. This may come in real handy if you are planning a building or a garden.

RailRadar is Google Maps mashup that tracks the position of trains running in India in realtime. Check it out as it’s not often that you see something as cool as this from Government of India owned entities.

Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, has written an open-letter to its customers apologizing for the sub-standard Maps app and even goes on to suggest some alternatives including Google Maps.

Nokia is clearly emerging as a major enterprise-mapping provider with most of Yahoo maps, Bing maps and now Amazon Maps being powered by its map data.

After recently bringing its free turn-by-turn navigation service to India, Google has made the service available to other countries in the middle-east.

Google has silently rolled out its Navigation service in India making the service available to millions of Android users in the country.

Over the last few days, Swiftkey, Instagram, Google Maps and Google+ for Android have been updated to add new features and fix some bugs.

Google Maps, YouTube and WhatsApp for Android has received a major update. Google Maps comes with the offline maps support, while the YouTube app comes with a new UI.

Over the last couple of days, quite a few Android applications have been updated including Angry Birds Space which brings 10 new delicious levels with it.

The Swiftkey team has released a new beta of their new Swiftkey 3 beta keyboard, which brings some bug fixes and an improved algorithm engine. Apart from this, Google has also released an update for Maps and Translate.

Apple is ready to ditch Google Maps in favor of home brewed mapping solution on its iOS operating system that powers iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, reports 9To5Mac. 

Photo tours around the globe is a great pastime with Google Earth and Google Street View. The brilliant imagery in a spiffy interface is indeed a great way to kill time. Now add to that a little bit of geospatial data in form of videos, audio and images. You get Meograph.

Google has just released a new updated version of Google Maps in the Google Play market, with a new navigation homescreen UI, map tiles and more. With this release, the big G is celebrating 50 billion KMs of turn-by-turn navigations by GMaps users.