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Wednesday, 5 December 2007

December Updates in Google Earth

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Posted by Wei Luo, Senior GIS Specialist

Here's good news for the international folks: we've just added roads and business listings in a number of countries. We've launched roads for South Africa and Poland, and we've added business listings in six new countries -- Finland, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland. Our Transit layer has also been enhanced with new colors and icons. If you're in one of those countries, launch Google Earth and check out the updates.

Roads in South Africa:



and roads in Poland:



An example of a business listing in Denmark:



Transit's new look:

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