常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

tilt

Google Mapsが再びiPhoneで利用できるようになりました。「傾く」という意味のtiltとには「〈カメラが〉上下に動く」(『プログレッシブ英和中辞典』小学館)という意味もあり,smooth tiltingはGoogle Mapsに特徴的な「なめらかな地図の表示」を指していると解釈できます。(Koyamamoto)

Google Maps now available as iPhone app
Google Maps is now available for iPhone users to download as an app.
Three months after Apple removed Google Maps as a built-in map and replaced it with its own product, Google said Wednesday that its revised map was finally approved by the iPhone maker to be listed in the Apple app store.
"People around the world have been asking for Google Maps on iPhone," wrote Daniel Graf, Director of Google Maps for Mobile, in the company blog. "It's designed from the ground up."
Google redesigned the app to show more map on screen than the previous version that was quashed by Apple for iPhone. The map also "loads more quickly and provides smooth tilting and rotating of 2D and 3D views," Graf says.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/12/13/google-maps-return-iphone/1765915/