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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."

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  1. For Europe, there is a better map site by lokedhs · · Score: 4, Informative

    I find http://www.map24.com/ to be superior to google maps. Even for the areas which google maps do have map data.

  2. Re:Professionally? by stampystamp · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, it's not a web application, but NASA World Wind was out before Google Maps. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

    I don't remember all the features, but when I last looked at it, it had a good zoom, which I like better than Google Maps. It also provides data from LandSat and USGS.

    Unfortunately, it's Windows only, and now that I switched to Linux, I have to use Google Maps.

  3. actually, there were a lot of changes by adpowers · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you interested, I've tried to make a full list of changes on my website. That website has side by side picture comparisons of the old and new. Some things they did as well: darkened minor streets, changed the projection, added one-way arrows, added some major building landmarks, and changed the size of the images being sent.

  4. Re:Nice going, jerkwad by Animats · · Score: 3, Informative
    For an overview of the lobbying effort, see "MILITARY IMPLICATIONS OF COMMERCIAL HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING SATELLITES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE", by Lt. Col. Peter L. Hays, USAF. He writes "Then, in June 1996 the Wall Street Journal reported that Israel was lobbying the White House to restrict all U.S. commercial remote sensing of their territory to resolutions of no better than three meters." The cite is "Israel Asks White House to Place Curbs on 3 U.S. Satellite-Surveillance Firms," Wall Street Journal, 17 Jun 1996.

    This is a well-known issue in the imaging world.