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Google Outs 3D Maps For iOS Ahead of Apple
hypnosec writes "Apple announced during WWDC 2012 that it is going to ditch Google maps and bring out its own under iOS 6. So, Google started working and in fact raced ahead of Apple in providing 3D maps for iOS. Through a blog post, Google announced that it has now made 3D imagery available on its Google Earth for iOS app. Users of iPhone 4S, iPad 2 or new iPad, while using Google Earth for iOS app, will feel that they are virtually flying over cities.The feature, as of now, works only for 12 regions. Cities for which the 3D imagery is provided are from US with an expectation of a city in Rome. The U.S. cities include: Boulder, Colo., Boston, Charlotte, N.C., Lawrence, Kan., Long Beach, Calif., Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., San Diego, Santa Cruz, Calif., Tampa, Fla., Tucson, Ariz., and San Francisco, plus its East Bay and Peninsula neighbors, notes the blog post."
How many cities does Rome have???
..is the iPad 3.
SAY IT! I WANT TO HEAR YOU SAY IT!
No more of this "the new" crap.
London also has 2: the City of London and the City of Westminster. Budapest consists of Buda and Pest. And of course there's Ankh-Morpork. It would appear that binary cities are as relatively frequent as binary stars, perhaps because, like stars, they grow by accretion.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."