In some cases there are enhancements to the road/street maps that were there previously (Greece for example) and for some countries streets and roads are completely new (Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey) This update of streets, roads and other points of interest will have a huge impact on users of Google Maps in these areas. It means that satellite imagery is now more relevant and easier to identify when "sightseeing" using the hybrid map view toggle. In addition, Google's new My Maps map creation tool is now instantly available for millions of people to begin creating and sharing interesting maps for these countries!
Know of other countries seeing updates or want to leave some feedback? Post a comment! :)
[Thanks to Scott Dexter for the tip!]
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Thank you!!!
ReplyDeleteEstonia has also new road data.
ReplyDeleteHong Kong and Macao... I think that's new too, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteHong Kong has been live since Dec/06:
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Mike.
in south america only sao paulo, brazil y buenos aires argentina, but whats happens with the rest of the countries?, like my country, Chile and my beautiful and contaminated city......Santiago...
ReplyDeletebye...(sorry for my Tarzan`s english)
have you seen this already: map.movin-360.com
ReplyDeleteThere are slight changes to the Hong Kong tiles. Most of the street geometry is the same, but the street names have been rewritten in a larger font and different placement.
ReplyDeleteNote that the new street maps for Turkey, Taiwan, Croatia and Slovenia are from new data providers. The Taiwan streetmaps are copyright "Kingway" and Turkey, Croatia and Slovenia are copyright "AND".
The Russia streetmaps are copyright "Google" and the other new tiles are still "TeleAtlas".
Romania has also got a very small update, so it's now showing major highways. It had no data showing before, hopefully more coming soon
ReplyDeleteThe addition of the new countries is great, however the Russian map seems to be completely in Cyrillic script, and the Thailand on exclusively in Thai.
ReplyDeleteAny idea if it is possible to change this to alternative languages to suit international audiences trying to find places?
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Rob
That's a good point Rob.. Check out this Google Earth Blog post that might help you out until the functionality exists in Google Maps:
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great job! btw, did you see http://domnakarte.ru/ already?
ReplyDeleteAnd could you give a hint when Ukraine could get more detailed map?
best wishes from Ukraine,
Alex
the data of Vietnam is too old (about 2 years ago), there isn't any update :(
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ReplyDeletewhen do you go to refresh map of croatia in europe
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