Google Earth Rolled Out MAJOR Update

The Mountain View company rolled out an impressive set of images for Google Maps showing almost every corner of the world. Although these pictures were meant for the web-based service, as far I can see, some of the locations are also updated in Google Earth, the downloadable application that offers almost the same functions. As the Google Earth Blog reported, most of the photos are made by Digital Globe, a company that captured satellite imagery and provided it to the Mountain View giant. According to Google's employees, this major update prepared for Google Maps contains even more images that were bundled into the downloadable application Google Earth.

Among the high-resolution pictures included in the solution, we can find several countries such as Canada, Germany, France, Andorra and numerous other locations. "Large Digital Globe (60cm) update includes areas in Sudan, expanded Africa, Australia, Mexico coverage and smaller areas of coverage in Asia, Polynesia, South America, Canada, Europe, Middle East plus some interesting islands in Antarctica and Greenland," the blog reported.

Besides the new detailed imagery included in the service, there are also several locations that were updated, including Ireland Middle East/Africa: Beirut, Lebanon and Tripoli, Libya Asia: Hong Kong and Manila, Philippine. However, the downloadable mapping tool Google Earth received hot pictures from the Canary Islands and the Western US.

In the recent period, the two solutions powered by the search giant became the most popular products on the Internet as they received revolutionary functions that brought them into the spotlights. Take for example, Google Maps that was updated with Street View, a function that caused much controversy among the users. Because it shows street-level panoramas, some of the users raised privacy concerns, sustaining that multiple photos are showing details from their houses. Yesterday, the search giant started removing the pictures in a move meant to avoid future problems for privacy violation.