Google's Maps team must be enjoying the fallout from Apple's own Maps journey so far, and now they've remind us just how sophisticated and advanced their application really is.
The company just added new high-resolution 45-degree imagery to Maps for 37 U.S. and 14 international locations. The new data is available in Google Earth as well as Maps.
The complete list of updates:
Cities with new high resolution 45-degree imagery:
United States: Ames, IA; Anderson, IN; Billings, MT; Bloomington, IL; Carmel Valley, CA; Cedar Rapids, IA; Coeur d'Alene, ID; Corvallis, OR; Danville, IL; Dayton, OH; Detroit, MI; Dubuque, IA; Elizabethtown, KY; Enid, OK; Florence, SC; Grand Forks, ND; Great Falls, MT; Gulfport, MS; Hartford, CT; Kankakee, IL; Kenosha, WI; Lafayette, IN; Lancaster, CA; Lansing, MI; Lewiston, ID; Los Banos, CA; Madison, WI; Medford, OR; Michigan City, IN; Olympia, WA; Pocatello, ID; Sheboygan, WI; Sioux City, IA; Sioux Falls, SD; South Bend, IN; Terre Haute, IN; Utica, NY.
International: Angers, France; Clermont-Ferrand, France; Coimbra, Portugal; Dijon, France; Grenoble, France; Livorno, Italy; Lyon, France; Newcastle, United Kingdom; Oberhausen, Germany; Palermo, Italy; Pisa, Italy; Toulouse, France; Troyes, France; Winnipeg, Canada.
Areas with new high resolution aerial updates:
Florence OR, Kellogg ID, Casper WY, North Platte NE, Concordia KS, Alva OK, Austin TX, Nevada MO, Chilicothe MO, Toulouse FR, Clermont-Ferrand FR, Angers FR, Nantes FR, Troyes FR, Lille FR, Thun CH, Lucca IT
Areas with new high resolution satellite updates:
Canada, United States, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Antarctica, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Zambia, Angola, Malawi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Benin, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali, The Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Turkey, Iran, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Finland, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzebekistan, Turkmenistan, China, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, The Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand
Sorry but nothing new. I.e.: Donostia /San Sebastian in Spain:
https://maps.google.es/maps?q=Sansebastian,+Avenida+de+Zumalakarregi,+Donostia-San+Sebasti%C3%A1n&hl=es&ie=UTF8&ll=43.321495,-1.985515&spn=0.001144,0.002064&sll=42.964311,-2.589855&sspn=1.666159,4.22699&oq=sanse&t=h&hq=Sansebastian,&hnear=Av+de+Zumalakarregi,+20008+Donostia-San+Sebasti%C3%A1n,+G%C2%A1puzkoa,+Pa%C3%ADs+Vasco&fll=43.321495,-1.985515&fspn=0.001144,0.002064&z=20
You obviously are not one of the 14 international locations, I can see how they would pick major international locations rather than some tiny backwater town in Spain
That's not some tiny fishing village actually :-)
It's not exactly huge, either. Consider how many places with populations >1M that were skipped over, even in the US, and it becomes very easy to understand skipping a Spanish city with fewer than 200k residents.