Google said that it opened its Google Maps doors to developers of mobile augmented reality games, granting access to all that mapped data.

Developers can now use Google Maps and the Unity game engine to do what they will with the real world. Google turned Maps features like buildings, streets and parks into GameObjects in Unity that ...

So it’s integrating the Google Maps API –currently used by all sorts of apps with maps on your phone–with the popular Unity video game engine.