This by calendar week both Mapbox too Google produce got been looking frontwards to the 2016 Rio Olympics. In doing too 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 produce got y'all on a guided tour of Rio de Janeiro too the venues beingness used inwards the games.
The tour is a pretty great demonstration of some of the capabilities of Mabox GL. It uses the flyTo function to smoothly interpolate betwixt the unlike venues too locations inwards the tour. It also uses bearing to rotate the map persuasion to render unlike perspectives on DigitalGlobe's satellite imagery of Rio de Janeiro.
These days the Google Maps API looks rattling clunky adjacent to Mapbox GL. However Google does even too so produce got Street View. This allows Google to present y'all panoramic imagery from within the Maracanã Stadium. I suspect that equally the Olympic Park too other venues virtually completion Google may unloose to a greater extent than Street View imagery related to the 2016 Olympic Games.
Any novel imagery volition live on available to developers via the Google Maps API, However the Maps API is an afterthought these days for Google too the companionship seems instantly to persuasion Google Maps rattling much equally a passive consumer production rather than equally a tool for developers.
In training for the Olympic Games thus 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 instantly run across indoor maps of the arena. At the bottom right-hand side of the map y'all tin give notice utilisation the numbers to navigate betwixt the floors too levels within the venue. If y'all select a flooring disclose the map volition present an indoor map of the selected level, alongside points of involvement such equally concessions, restrooms too ATM's highlighted on the venue plan.
You tin give notice run across the novel indoor maps inwards activeness on Google Maps at the Maracanã Stadium.
