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comprehensive source maps of streets and addresses for Mexico and the U.S.—and
users have been working on building and correcting over 60 countries. Street View
has exploded around the world with more than twice the countries covered and has
unbelievable, higher resolution images in many places. Our Street View images of
Whistler at the Olympics had nearly as many views as there are Canadians! We also
made many improvements to how we handle local businesses.
I love that you can now search for something in Google Maps and then see all the little
dots on the map, no matter how many there are, or how much you move the map
around. With all the progress we’ve made with geo products, I can now be found in
my one-time location of Happy, Texas!
On a much more serious and sad note, after the tragic earthquakes in Haiti and Chile
we were able to gather updated high resolution imagery very quickly to help the relief
efforts in both countries. In Google Earth, you can view images of places over time
by enabling “historical imagery”. I did this for Haiti and found it brought home the
devastation of the earthquake because I would see exactly which buildings had been
damaged. It was almost as if I was there.
Google Books
I was amazed to see on Google Books a fully accessible archive of some priceless
magazines, including Popular Science—going back 137 years! It has all the ads and
everything, though they didn’t seem to have many ads back in the April 1872 edition.
It is truly a dream fulfilled for me that we now have 12 million books scanned and