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Google Maps Now Cover Whole World

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the can't-get-there-from-here dept.

GregBryant writes "They haven't blogged it yet, but maps.google.com has added some additional scaling-out, and maps of the entire world are available. Only country names so far (except in the US, Canada & UK) but it's still nice to finally click back & forth between the Satellite imagery and some real maps, even if their proportions don't quite match."

13 of 357 comments (clear)

  1. Well by Neophus · · Score: 2, Funny

    I still can't find area 51! dang.

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  2. So.... by Himring · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could always do this in Civ as soon as you build Apollo world wonder....

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  3. Well.. by PopeAlien · · Score: 4, Funny

    Getting all the country names and rough maps is a good first step for WORLD DOMINATION!

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    1. Re:Well.. by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

      Getting all the country names and rough maps is a good first step for WORLD DOMINATION!

      Hey I can see your house! It's all bright and shiny, like if it was covered in, I don't know, tin-foil or something. Most puzzling...

      Anyway, I'm so glad you pointed that out. After all, before google, we NEVER had detailed maps of the Earth with country names. I even thought the planet was flat...

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    2. Re:Well.. by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 2, Funny

      The planet is flat you stupid heathen!

      Can't you see from your own eyes? Even that ungodly google shows it's flat!


      Yes. Humour.

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  4. Google Maps Now Cover Whole World by thewiz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just great! Now who's going to clean up this mess?

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  5. Not just US and UK, actually. by richie2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They have satellite imagery of a very large piece of Denmark too: Clicky, clicky, looks just like the real thing to me. :-)

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  6. How far can you zoom in? by duncanbojangles · · Score: 2, Funny

    Woot! The whole world? Nude beaches of Spain, here I come!

  7. Re:Personally, I don't think it's worth of it by Trollstoi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Chicks sunbathing on roofs... just imagine...

  8. Re:Zooom RIGHT out by dustinbarbour · · Score: 2, Funny

    Better yet, zoom out and then recenter the map to somewhere that was on the edge. The map keeps going! We can never run out of space! Man.. Google really is the most awesome company ever. They even made the damn globe bigger!

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  9. Israel will be angry... by danimrich · · Score: 3, Funny

    When zooming in, the "Gaza Strip" and the "West Bank" are labelled first. The label "Israel" does not appear unless one zooms further in.

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  10. Now all we need is a cool body suspension .... by 3seas · · Score: 3, Funny

    interface and we can feel like superman or neo flying around the world...

  11. MMORPGs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Ok, so I'm a bit drunk and I just smoked a bit of grass, so this might be an idiotic idea but here it goes: wouldn't all this data allow the creation of the greatest MMORPGs or tactical shooters ever?

    Wanna kick ass in Fallujah? Download the citymap and the town gets rendered based on the satellite imagery. Want to fight orc hordes in frozen wastelands? Use siberian satellite imagery and add some CGI.