Google Now Opens Access to its Digital Maps for Game and Application Developers

JAKARTA – Google opens access platform digital maps of Google Maps to the wider community. So that game and application developers can take advantage of their digital map data services to innovate.
As is well known, this Silicon Valley-based technology giant has indeed collaborated with a number of game studios and produced a variety of games built using the Google Maps database. Pokemon Go is one of the popular game play made by Niantic, after working with Google.
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Summarized The VergeIn fact, this open data access has been carried out by Google since March 2018. However, its availability is only limited to a few game and application development studios.
“For the first time, game developers can make applications quickly and easily with the Google Maps Platform,” wrote Google, Thursday, June 25.
Google steps with publishing data platformThis was received positively by game studios and app developers. Where they can upgrade the infrastructure of applications under development easier and faster.

Moreover, Google Maps data has covered more than 220 regions and countries, including millions of buildings and city icons. Not only that, Google even offered software development kit (SDK) to make things easier developer develop his own game.
“For the first time, game developers can make applications quickly and easily with the Google Maps Platform,” wrote Google, Thursday, June 25.
Through this platform, developers can adapt their applications and games to the original environment and location in the real world. Google has also added features Pathfinding nor Mixed Zoom to transform locations or centers of the crowd into the application.
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