Thursday, September 04, 2008

Google Maps Updates

Mapperz has busy checking out which areas have received new map tiles in Google Maps latest update. It looks like the majority of the updates are for countries editable in Google Map Maker.

These countries seem to now have road maps:

St Lucia
Grenada
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Trinidad and Tobago
Malta
Mauritius
Barbados
Pakistan (some new content)
Israel

Town names only:

Georgia
Solomon Islands
Faroe Islands
Guam
Cyprus

Limited Content added:

Madagascar


Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania also all have new map tiles.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Georgia's neighbors Azerbaijan and Armenia also got town names only.

Khaled A. said...

Saudi Arabia got updated too. from a couple of lines that made no sense to actual navteq data.
Navteq data is outdated, by 4 years, as you can see here
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=riyadh&ie=UTF8&ll=24.704284,46.653872&spn=0.012106,0.022616&t=h&z=16