Google Maps recently updated its app for Android to include faster, vector-based loading of maps. That’s the boring stuff. The cool stuff is the 3D views, and two finger guesture control to tilt, spin, etc. Its like Google Earth without the fat now.
While giving it a test run through the upper East Side this morning, I noticed something odd. The Guggenheim Museum doesn’t look like what it should, at least in my snobby architectural mind. It seems Google has chosen to simply extrude the footprints of individual lots instead of giving iconic buildings the true and accurate rendering they deserve. I want to see the spiral and the cantilevered entrance! C’mon Googs! Perhaps in 6.0. :/