It seems that Google Maps on your Kindle Fire won’t be the default option for much longer. Back in September, the online retail giant introduced a beta version of its Amazon Maps API and now it’s finally ready. Developers seems to be interested in the new platform. Apps like Hipmunk, Evernote, Trulia and Zillow are already integrated into Kindle Fire.
At this time The Amazon Maps API has two core features:
- Interactive Maps, where you can embed a Map View in your app for customers to pan, zoom and fling around the world. You have the option to display a user’s current location, switch between standard maps and satellite view, and more.
- Custom Overlays, where you can display the locations of businesses, landmarks and other points of interest with your own customized markers and pins.
Well… Let’s just hope that Amazon will not make the mistakes of Apple… and Google Maps will remain the default option for Kindle Fire users.
source: Amazon
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Finally a good news for all Russian geoawesome readers! Google recently updated 45 Russian cities with detailed maps starting from Sochi, the future city of the Winter Games in 2014 and finishing in deep east with Vladivostok. We live in a second decade of XXI century and 45 important Russian cities were not mapped. To be honest I think it’s a little bit embarrassing for Google…
A complete list of cities for which detailed maps are now available Google, you will find below.
- Barnaul, Altay
- Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region
- Carpets, Vladimir Region
- Murom, Vladimir region
- Cherepovets, Vologda region
- Vologda, Vologda Region
- Chita, Transbaikal Territory
- Ivanovo, Ivanovo region
- Sovetsk, Kirov region
- Kaluga, Kaluga region
- Obninsk, Kaluga region
- Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region
- Kemerovo, Kemerovo region
- Syktyvkar
- Ukhta, Komi Republic
- Sochi, Krasnodar Krai
- Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai
- Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai
- Yeisk, Krasnodar Territory
- Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai
- Anapa, Krasnodar Krai
- Kansk, Krasnoyarsk
- Kurgan, Kurgan region
- Luga, Leningrad Oblast
- Saransk, Mordovia
- Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod region
- Bor, Nizhny Novgorod region
- Veliky Novgorod, Novgorod Oblast
- Orsk, Orenburg region
- Penza, Penza region
- Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai
- Artyom, Primorsky Krai
- Rostov-on-Don, Rostov region
- Azov, Rostov Region
- Donetsk, Rostov Region
- Smolensk, Smolensk region
- Stavropol, Stavropol Territory
- Tyumen, the Tyumen region
- Izhevsk, Udmurtia
- Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai
- Nizhnevartovsk, Khanty-Mansiysk
- Urai, Khanty-Mansiysk
- Cheboksary, Chuvashia
- Yakutsk, Yakutia
- Mirny, Yakutia
source: Google Maps Russia
