{"id":5969,"date":"2011-10-13T14:23:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2011-10-13T14:25:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:25:57","slug":"vector-maps-via-webgl-finally-make-it-to-google-maps-on-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/vector-maps-via-webgl-finally-make-it-to-google-maps-on-the-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Vector Maps via webGL finally make it to Google maps on the desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Not sure why this took so long. Perhaps dealing with the satellite view. Regardless, its pretty nice. You need to have a desktop with a good graphics card and a browser that supports webGL. The latest Firefox and Chrome should be fine.<\/p>\n

The two nice points, is VERY fast refresh, smooth transition from 2D to 3D and much nicer rendering of buildings when zoomed in.\u00a0 I tried this on my laptop, that does not have graphics acceleration, and only Chrome would offer me the chance to access the mode.\u00a0 Nice.\u00a0 Sure it slows down a bit when zoomed out and making new calls, but once those vectors are cached, its pretty quick even in software rendering mode.\u00a0 Now if I can only get this on my iPhone!<\/p>\n

Check the Vid from Google…<\/p>\n