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January 19, 2006
Enhanced Road Layers for Google Earth
Google just announced new enhanced road layers within Google Earth. The enhancements cover at least the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands - according to the brief announcement at the GEC here:
Jan 18th, 7pm (PST) The road layers have been updated in a number of ways. Have a look in the US, in Canada, in Puerto Rico, and in the US Virgin Islands to see some of the enhancements.
To see the new roads, turn on the Roads layer. The colors are now different for the roads, and look more like those found in Google Local. Also, the roads declutter as you zoom out, and the lines for the roads disappear when you're close enough to see the roads themselves from the aerial/satellite photography. Some of the road data seems more accurate than before. And, the road data was a bit more up to date at least in one place I looked at.
The decluttering effect seemed to apply to the UK and Italy when I looked, but I didn't notice a lot of different data for those countries. Anyone else notice something else new?
Posted by FrankTaylor at January 19, 2006 10:17 PM
Comments
Posted by: Shawn K. at January 22, 2006 11:53 AM
I noticed a bunch of roads that used to be labeled by their "state route" number in NC are now labeled by their proper names. Although there are still some nagging misalignments.
Posted by: Owen at January 22, 2006 07:54 PM
Is there a way to correct a road name? Also the road layer is out of alignment with the photo.
zip 95412.
Posted by: Doug Simmonds at November 16, 2006 02:57 PM
I am from Bulgaria and the road system there is not shown in google earth corectly. some one knows how to subscribe the roads to google?
Posted by: Ognian at August 11, 2007 08:00 AM
I live in Charleston WV on Wilson Road 25312, I noticed that someone has changed the name to
railroad 10. Where did this come from?
It is actually Rural Route 10/Wilson Road. Can this be corrected?
Thanks
Posted by: Sissy at October 16, 2007 08:33 PM
If you want to make corrections to the map data, please visit http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com and file a report.
Posted by: Charles N at April 9, 2008 03:44 PM
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I noticed alot of corrections for roads that were slightly off in South Alabama.