Google Maps replaced the button Hybrid with a button reading Terrain (Hybrid used to show a mix between satellite imagery and maps data, such as streets or borders). The Satellite tab in the meantime received a checkbox which allows you to toggle off the display of labels on the map.
Anders, who discovered this change and shared it in the forum, notes that the new Terrain view "is mostly interesting to those of us who love geospatial data. The elevation looks like shadows."
Anders notes another amendment to Google Maps, saying "search for a location and in the pop-up bubble, a Street View still image appears if there is Street View available for t ...
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