The Rio Olympics - Within & Out

This past times calendar week both Mapbox together with Google cause got been looking frontwards to the 2016 Rio Olympics. In doing together with so they also both playing to their mapping strengths.

Mapbox's Rio 2016 takes y'all on a mapped tour unopen to the 32 venues of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The map uses DigitalGlobe's latest high resolution satellite imagery to accept y'all on a guided tour of Rio de Janeiro together with the venues beingness used inwards the games.

The tour is a pretty groovy demonstration of some of the capabilities of Mabox GL. It uses the flyTo function to smoothly interpolate betwixt the dissimilar venues together with locations inwards the tour. It also uses bearing to rotate the map stance to render dissimilar perspectives on DigitalGlobe's satellite imagery of Rio de Janeiro.


These days the Google Maps API looks really clunky side past times side to Mapbox GL. However Google does even together with so cause got Street View. This allows Google to demonstrate y'all panoramic imagery from within the Maracanã Stadium. I suspect that equally the Olympic Park together with other venues most completion Google may liberate to a greater extent than Street View imagery related to the 2016 Olympic Games.

Any novel imagery volition endure available to developers via the Google Maps API, However the Maps API is an afterthought these days for Google together with the companionship seems straightaway to stance Google Maps really much equally a passive consumer production rather than equally a tool for developers.

In grooming for the Olympic Games thence Google has been concentrating on providing Indoor Maps of the 2016 Olympic Venues. When y'all zoom inwards on a 2016 Rio Olympics venue on Google Maps y'all should straightaway run across indoor maps of the arena. At the bottom right-hand side of the map y'all tin usage the numbers to navigate betwixt the floors together with levels within the venue. If y'all select a flooring position out the map volition demonstrate an indoor map of the selected level, alongside points of involvement such equally concessions, restrooms together with ATM's highlighted on the venue plan.

You tin run across the novel indoor maps inwards activeness on Google Maps at the Maracanã Stadium.