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Google Product Manager Dave Barth writes from the Google Lat Long Blog, "Here's great news for all of the virtual explorers out there: Today we added 54 new countries to Google Maps! We've more than doubled our coverage of Latin America and are now mapping three times as many countries in Asia as before." Some of the more interesting additions include: Afganistan, Iran (I'm guessing no StreetView with that anytime soon), Pakistan, Syria, and of course the one everyone was clamoring for, Timor-Leste.
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Google Maps Adds Coverage for 54 Countries.
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Timor high-def needed
(Score:0)The world's newest country needs all the help it can get, to fend off the avaricious Aussies coveting their resources.
If Google starts putting up LIDAR overlays of the oceans then we are in business.