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March 28, 2013 01:14 am GMT
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Google Launches Maps Engine Lite, Makes It Easy To Create Advanced Custom Maps
For years now, Google has offered its Google Maps Engine to enterprises who want to visualize their custom geospacial data and starting today, anybody will be able to use a subset of this functionality thanks to the launch of Google Maps Engine Lite(beta). This new tool, Google says, will allow any mapping enthusiastto “create and share robust custom maps using this powerful, easy-to-use tool.” Maps Engine Lite allows users to upload small spreadsheets with locations and visualize them on a map. They can also compare up to three different data sets for, the company stresses, non-businesses purposes. These custom maps can have multiple layers and users who don’t have any spreadsheets they want to upload can also manually draw lines, mark specific areas and set place markers. Google offers a total of nine base maps, including its usual satellite and terrain maps, as well as styles that emphasis city boundaries political boundaries and highways. Maps Engine Lite also offers about 150 different icons that you can be used to mark specific places. To help new users get started, Google also published a tutorial that offers a few sample data sets and a set-by-step guide to publishing a custom map. Google says it will still offer My Maps, its earlier custom mapping tool for the time being and My Maps users can import their maps into the new Maps Engine Lite. Over time, however, Google product manager Beth Liebert writes in today’s announcement, My Maps will be “incorporated into Google Maps Engine Lite.” For now, Google is officially labeling Maps Engine Lite as a ‘beta’ and it’ll only be available in English for the time being.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/75QNsA-JXEs/
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