{"id":10272,"date":"2014-06-16T00:25:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T19:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2019-12-27T06:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:50:01","slug":"google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps for Android exceeds 1 billion downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes the tech giant has done it again. It has surpassed all its previous downloads. Google Maps for Android has exceeding a total of 1 billion downloads. Google Maps is the second app that has been successful to do so. The first one was Gmail, which joined the over-billion downloads list about a month ago. Or rather it should be said that Gmail founded the list. It was the first list to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The Google Maps has been one of the most successful apps that have reached the Play Store. If anyone of you still does not know what Google Maps is, and if you are an Android user, you can download the app from <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.maps\">here<\/a>. What is Google Maps, it is an app that has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comprehensive, accurate maps in 220 countries and territories<\/li>\n<li>Voice-guided GPS navigation for driving, cycling and walking<\/li>\n<li>Public transport directions and maps for over 15,000 towns and cities<\/li>\n<li>Live traffic conditions, incident reports and automatic rerouting to find the best route<\/li>\n<li>Detailed information on more than 100 million places<\/li>\n<li>Street View and indoor imagery for restaurants, museums and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And many other features that are disclosed when you use the application yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Note that downloads represent unique accounts that have downloaded the app. Which means that multiple downloads from one account is still counted as one. The 1 billion mark shows that the app has been downloaded by every 7<sup>th<\/sup> person of the world (considering each download as a distinct human).<\/p>\n<p>The next potential app to add to the list is YouTube. But the rate of downloads of YouTube may reduce due the fact of it being ban in some countries. Pakistan being the top of the list. But we\u2019ll just have to wait to see how much does it take.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s on Google Developer I\/O on June 25<sup>th<\/sup> to finally reveal if Google has been planning something new for Google Maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes the tech giant has done it again. It has surpassed all its previous downloads. Google Maps for Android has exceeding a total of 1 billion downloads. Google Maps is the second app that has been successful to do so. The first one was Gmail, which joined the over-billion downloads list about a month ago. Or rather it should be said that Gmail founded the list. It was the first list to do so. The Google Maps has been one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":10273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[215,232],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google Maps for Android exceeds 1 billion downloads<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google has done it again, the app of Google Maps has been downloaded more than a billion times on Android and has joined Gmail in the list\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google Maps for Android exceeds 1 billion downloads\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Google has done it again, the app of Google Maps has been downloaded more than a billion times on Android and has joined Gmail in the list\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TheNerdMag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheNerdMag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-06-15T19:25:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-12-27T01:50:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Google-Maps-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"660\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Danyal Khalid\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@TheNerdMag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@TheNerdMag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Danyal Khalid\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Danyal Khalid\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bd70082f2344d93b5bd65669568c9dfa\"},\"headline\":\"Google Maps for Android exceeds 1 billion downloads\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-06-15T19:25:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-12-27T01:50:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/\"},\"wordCount\":323,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Google\",\"Google Maps\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Tech\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/\",\"name\":\"Google Maps for Android exceeds 1 billion downloads\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-06-15T19:25:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-12-27T01:50:01+00:00\",\"description\":\"Google has done it again, the app of Google Maps has been downloaded more than a billion times on Android and has joined Gmail in the list\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/google-maps-android-exceeds-1-billion-downloads\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Google Maps for Android exceeds 1 billion downloads\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/\",\"name\":\"TheNerdMag\",\"description\":\"Internet - 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