Google announced Thursday that it has come out with a comprehensive and massive update of its Street View coverage, adding 250,000 miles of roads all over the world.
Google said that their Street View coverage is now "more comprehensive than ever before" and that this is the "biggest ever update." The company said it has "doubled the number of special collections" and added more than 250,000 miles of roads worldwide. The Street View coverage has been increased in Macau, Singapore, Sweden, the U.S., Thailand, Taiwan, Italy, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway and Canada, while special collections have been launched in South Africa, Japan, Spain, France, Brazil and Mexico, Google said in a blog post.
The new update to Google Maps will let users explore "city centers, castles and tourist attractions like Catherine Palace and Ferapontov monastery in Russia, the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taiwan, or Stanley Park in Vancouver...Singapore's Fort Canning Park."
Google Maps also provides users with an inside view of some landmarks like the Kronborg castle in Denmark.
This move by Google holds more significance after Apple removed Google Maps and launched its own in-house version known as "Maps." Apple's "Maps" turned out to be extremely inaccurate and was severely criticized by users. This resulted in an uncommon apology by Apple CEO Tim Cook where, in a rare move, he suggested for users to use Google and Nokia maps from mobile web browsers.
Google has since then been updating its Google Maps for mobile browsers. Google Maps launched an update Friday for mobile web browsers that iOS users could access better.
