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In a move probably more related to a push from Apple and Vodafone over the uselessness of the iPhone‘s mapping ability than out of Google‘s own world domination attempts, Google Maps has finally been updated with a vastly more comprehensive detail level on maps in South Africa.
So its good news for all us tech junkies who are too lazy to bother with paper maps, but for the likes of Streetmaps, Brabys and various other South African map printing companies it spells time to rethink or get out.
Best we keep an eye out for Google Street View Cars clogging our streets in the near future, but my hopes aren’t high, so I’ll take that one with a pinch of salt, but it is likely the directions feature should become available as soon as Google points their route crunchers at the new mapping data.
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4 replies on “Google Maps South Africa Updated… At Last”
Yeah, its nice, but unfortunately at least for me I can only get the detailed streets in hybrid view, anybody know how to get them in maps view on the iPhone?
That’s great. What is also great is that it now knows street names and addresses. It can’t do directions yet though…
It’ll come. New iPhone being launched soon, so expect updated OS too. Cool.
Now if only data were reasonably priced.
If they just brought out searchable offline downloadable maps, as Nokia has, that would be awesome. I’m sure there is money to be made by Google simply by offering that functionality.