Google opens Maps to bring the real world into games

[mouser]

I have flirted with some ideas of games based on real world large-scale map data, so this is pretty cool news.

The search firm is both opening its Maps platform's real-time data and offering new software toolkits that will help developers build games based on that data. The software includes both a kit to translate map info to the Unity game engine as well as another to help make games using that location data.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/14/google-opens-maps-to-game-developers/

from https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/14/1840206/google-opens-maps-to-bring-the-real-world-into-games

[Deozaan]

It will be interesting to see what comes from this.