14 DAY TRIAL // Google Earth, the downloadable mapping application provided by the Mountain View company, is now providing even more high-resolution photos as the parent firm updated several locations around the world. Although the news came on April Fool's Day, the reports are not fakes as the new high-quality imagery is now accessible to all the users who downloaded and installed Google Earth.
A blog post published on the Lat Long Blog owned by Google revealed that no less than 86 different countries have been updated but, as usual, the company's employees only published a few hints regarding the updated locations in order to let the Google Earth fans discover the high-resolution imagery.
"Today we've launched a significant amount of new imagery throughout the world. The updates include new imagery of all seven continents, touching over 86 different countries. As always, I'm leaving hints here, and I'll post answers and a more complete listing of the updates tomorrow," Matt Manolides, GIS Specialist, wrote in the blog post.
Although the complete update list is expected today, Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog and some readers created a list with a few updated areas:
￭ Wales ￭ Mount Fuji, Japan ￭ Havana, Cuba ￭ McMurdo, Antarctica ￭ Three Gorges Dam, China ￭ London, Ontario ￭ Dayton, OH ￭ Seattle, WA ￭ Vancouver and Vancouver Island ￭ Dallas, TX ￭ Preston County, WV ￭ Parts of Estonia ￭ Parts of Moldova ￭ Bordeaux, France ￭ Bratislava, Slovakia ￭ New South Wales and Western Australia ￭ Southwest Pennsylvania
In case you have already downloaded and installed Google Earth, it's enough to launch the application and enter one of the locations mentioned above. If you want to download the program right now, you can take it straight from Softpedia using the following link. And don't forget to check this article very soon in order to find the complete list of the updated areas.