Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:59:53 GMT
Australia Has Detailed Roads in Google Earth.
At last! After months of waiting, Google has migrated the detailed road maps they had in Google Maps into the Google Earth layer for roads. A week or two ago, we had a clue this was coming when some GEB readers pointed out the driving directions were available for Australia – just no visible layer. Today the layer finally was released. Both Australia and New Zealand roads were added at about the same time to Google Maps last fall. Since in GE the sparse roads for New Zealand are now completely missing, I suspect New Zealand will soon have detailed roads as well.
One thing which will probably take a bit longer for this region are the other points of interest layers (like Parks, Lodging, Dining, etc.). Once they have added those layers this regions will be more on a par with the US and Europe.
