- 54 new countries added
- Double the coverage in Latin America
- Three times the coverage in the continent of Asia
Afghanistan, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Mexico, Myanmar (Burma), Mongolia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Timor-Leste, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam and Yemen.
(Extracted from Google Maps Mania blog)
So how big is the news for Vietnam? Our thoughts are:
- On maps details: Even with main cities Hanoi, Hochiminh, Nha Trang, Da Nang... supported roads are national level. For example, in Hanoi we can only see national roads such as 1A, 32B, 18... Streets in cities are not yet available :(
- On accuracy: Google maps satellite images and supported roads of Vietnam are not match. Errors at some areas are very large :(
- For us, this news is big news. But we expect a bigger one. From now onward, let's hope for bigger news telling us that most of the streets in main cities of Vietnam are supported...
3 comments:
The road data for the Philippines only shows the highways and major roads. No streets. :(
I talked about this update in my blog and I found out that the data Google uses is exactly the same as the ones used in Microsoft Live Maps. Can you see if that's the same case for Vietnam, too?
For the roads, the situation in Vietnam is the same as Philippines, as you said. But Microsoft Live Maps gives more geo-names on their maps than Google Maps. How is accuracy of Google maps' roads for Philippines?
The roads in the Philippines is pretty inaccurate. Wrong shapes and positions but generally correct, topologically.
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