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March 14, 2008
Layer Update for Google Earth - 94 new countries with Roads - March 14
Google has made a layer update today for Google Earth (and Maps). Included in this layer update:
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New Roads - 94 new countries have roads including 58 in Africa, 32 in Asia, and 4 in the Caribbean. And supposedly the roads data is also available in Google Maps. Just turn on the Roads layer and visit the countries to see the new layer information. Zoom in for more details. (Report in the comments if you know which countries have been added). NOTE: While I see some main roads in many countries in Africa, I haven't found a lot of city street roads in this update for those countries.
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Business Listings - Layers on businesses like Dining, Lodging, etc. (found under the Places of Interest layer folder) are now added for Brazil and a few cities in Russia.
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Russian Cyrillic - Placemark balloons now support cyrillic or latin translated addresses.
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New Zealand - The New Zealand tourism board has added some placemarks with details about their airports. They are found under the following layer folder: Gallery->Travel and Tourism->100% Pure New Zealand->New Zealand Airports
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Geographic Web Update - Also the Wikipedia entries and Panoramio photo layers have new additions (found under the Geographic Web layer.
If I'm reading the announcement right, the Panoramio layer will now begin updating daily.According to the Panoramio blog, the update adds 600,000 new photos - bringing the total to 5.1 million in Google Earth! There's no mention that the process will be changing for when photos are added to the layer. Of course, you can view new photos added to Panoramio's site every day.
via Google Lat Long
Posted by FrankTaylor at March 14, 2008 03:51 PM
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Posted by: Canoro at March 14, 2008 05:02 PM
Indonesia surely gets the road update. YAY!
Posted by: Nanda Firdausi at March 14, 2008 05:31 PM
Bali has gone from 2 or 3 roads to a rather detailed road map. Now I'm waiting for a satellite update there. : - )
Posted by: Rob at March 15, 2008 04:33 AM
The layer isn't updated daily. I asked some days ago Eduardo of the Panoramio Team why photos doesn't go live in Earth. He said: Google Earth is very complex so it isn't easy to add something live.
I think the original sentence ("You have the choice of over 4 million pictures worldwide, with more added every day.") mean: Everyday pictures are added to Panoramio.com, but after a review they go live. BTW: It are 5.1 million pics
Posted by: Pascal at March 15, 2008 04:58 AM
I noticed a new option in the primary layers that enabled you to switch the imagery off. (It was a 'Radio Switch' called 'Imagery') The result was a transparent globe, with only selected data (such as borders / 3d buildings) on it. It was quite fun and had lots of possible uses.
The 'Imagery' selector has disappeared this morning (15th March UK time). Was it a GError? Love to have it back. Did anyone else notice this transient feature?
Posted by: MacFan at March 15, 2008 05:26 AM
I confirm that they updated the road network with names in Saudi Arabia
Posted by: zsafwan at March 15, 2008 03:09 PM
No roads for Argentina yet. None. And there is Free map information available in several sites. Uruguay, nearby has street names in remote towns, but Argentina... not even main roads. Why are we left behind ?
Posted by: jhava at March 15, 2008 11:14 PM
Its fantastic to see the new countries with roads......I hope they will continue to add new features.
Posted by: Vectorpedia (Rick) at March 16, 2008 04:32 PM
I updated a Wikipedia entry with coords over 6 months ago and its still not appearing.
Does anyone know why?
Its the article on RMS Niagara.
-Al
Posted by: Al Grant at March 24, 2008 02:51 PM
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also in the layers pane i saw the possibility to turn off and on the imagery