Upcoming potential Google Maps update introduces Aerial button to Street View

Google Maps on Android may be adding an Aerial button to quickly switch between Street View and Satellite View.

This upcoming Google Maps feature could make virtual exploration easier, and here's a look

Google Maps is adding a new Aerial button that simplifies switching from Street View to Satellite View. Check it out ahead of its release!
Gizmodo

Aerial View and Other Features Come to Google Maps

Google Maps is getting three new features intended to help you coordinate your plans like checking out a landmark without leaving your house or keeping tabs on your friends locations at a festival.
InfoQ

Google Maps Previews Aerial View API

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Engadget

Google Maps now offers 3D aerial views of famous landmarks

Google's 3D "immersive view" isn't completely ready, but you can get a glimpse of it starting today. The company is rolling out updates to Google Maps for Android and iOS that introduce aerial views ...
Alternative Press

Google Maps' Satellite view is not what you think it is and we're devastated

You know those moments where you learn a piece of mind-blowing information that makes you feel like your entire life was a lie? Google Maps co-creator Bret Taylor has sent the internet into panic mode ...
BGR

The Crazy Story Of How Google Maps' Satellite View Was Almost Called Bird Mode

Practically anyone who works in an office setting and has to answer to layers of management can sympathize with a certain kind of bureaucracy. The kind where good ideas have to confront the harsh ...
The Verge

Google wants to make Maps much more immersive

With new features like Immersive View and search with Live View, Google’s looking to go beyond a static top-down map With new features like Immersive View and search with Live View, Google’s looking ...
Android

Google Maps Adds 3D Aerial Views For Popular Landmarks

At I/O in May, Google announced a 3D immersive view for Maps that would let you see the world in a whole new way. As a first step toward it, the company is rolling out “photorealistic aerial views” of ...
BGR

The Crazy Story Of How Google Maps' Satellite View Was Almost Called Bird Mode

Practically anyone who works in an office setting and has to answer to layers of management can sympathize with a certain kind of bureaucracy. The kind where good ideas have to confront the harsh ...
Mashable

Google Maps' Satellite view is a lie — and it was almost called 'Bird Mode'

There's more evidence that just ignoring your eccentric boss' bad ideas is the best way to deal with them. The co-creator of Google Maps and current Salesforce president Bret Taylor decided that Feb.