Slovakia updated on Google Maps
“In the vast universe of Google users, a small cadre of aficionados exists who closely track every move of the search industry leader and act as a kind of editorial board and echo chamber for all things Google” wrote David Vise in his book “The Google Story“. I came across that statement while reading the book yesterday.
Not that I would follow “the search industry leader” steps too closely, yet one thing I was happy to notice recently: Prešov, the Eastern Slovakian town where I was born, got updated on Google Maps and so was whole of Slovakia and some other CEE countries. It appears that Google had published the 2007.1 TeleAtlas data with the detailed street coverage available for some new CEE regions, some advanced details (such as POIs) are however still missing.
I compared the Google Maps version with the most recent version of proprietary CEE Maps available for TomTom devices (version 6.75) – both Google and TomTom maps of Slovakia are the same, apparently based on 2007.1 TeleAtlas data (including all the mistakes). Google Earth has the same update, the countdown now started for the detailed satellite images coverage…