There is a "3D" button on desktop Google Maps, which launches the Google Earth dataset, but on mobile you've only ever had a flat satellite view or untextured 3D blocks of buildings.

3D buildings in Google Maps don’t appear by default, but rather when you turn on a layer in the app. Buildings show up in 3D whether it’s in a city or a smaller area too.

On Android Auto, turning off 3D buildings in Google Maps is rather easy. Opening up Maps in fullscreen on your car’s display will reveal a settings shortcut and, as you scroll down the page, a ...

Google Maps gets 3D view of the world Earth view brings depth to Google's mapping service. It needs a browser plug-in for now some day we'll be cruising in 3D in Google's virtual world.

Google Maps is expanding the Immersive View format it revealed last year to an important part of the app: routes. When you look for directions in Google Maps on iOS and Android in select cities ...

Talking about air quality, Google Maps will also get a new eco-friendly routing option that lets you pick the driving route that produces the least CO2 (coming to Android and iOS later this year ...

Google Maps 3D demo on iPad, via The Verge. Wednesday's media event comes just five days before Apple is set to hold its own keynote address at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference.

Google Maps GL, which is the in-browser hardware-accelerated 3D graphics version of the service with smoother transitions between imagery, is yet to receive the updated 3D landmark renderings.

Eugene Yeh, director of Go-to-Market for Google Maps Platform: "We know creators and developers across platforms want rich, photorealistic 3D visualizations and that is why we are excited to bring ...

Interestingly, Google Maps 3D has been demoed on stage by Google on an iPad not on an Android device, but 3D imagery will be coming to both Android and iOS devices at some point “in the coming ...

Earlier today, a Google PR person gave me a pair of 3D glasses at the Where 2.0 conference and said I'd need them tomorrow. Hmm, was Google Maps going 3D?