New The Biggest Street Stance Update Yet

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Google Maps has today announced its biggest Street View update ever, adding over 250,000 miles of panoramic imagery to roads merely about the world.

New Street View imagery has been rolled out inward Macau, Singapore, Sweden, the U.S., Thailand, Taiwan, Italy, Great Britain, Denmark, Kingdom of Norway as well as Canada. Special Collections of off-road imagery has too been added inward South Africa, Japan, Spain, France, Brazil as well as Mexico.

The Google Lat Long weblog has picked out some highlights, including the Catherine Palace as well as Ferapontov Monastery inward Russia, the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall inward Taiwan, or Stanley Park inward Vancouver. You tin fifty-fifty walk through the urban jungle of Singapore's Fort Canning Park, without always leaving home.

There are patently going to locomote a lot of surprises inward this novel liberate of Street View. In the U.S.A. I mean value the Street Views inward Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags St Louis, as well as Kings Island (Cincinnati) are new. In the UK Shepperton Studios as well as Pinewood Studios directly too convey Street View.

Time Zones for the Google Maps API

Google has too added today a novel Time Zone API to the Google Maps API Web Services. The API returns data nigh the fourth dimension zone of whatever place on earth. The reply contains data such equally the IANA Time Zone ID, long degree name, maiden off from UTC as well as whatever maiden off due to daylight savings.

Developers tin access the API upward to 2,500 requests per day, piece Google Maps API for Business customers brand 100,000 requests. Full documentation is available on the Google Developers website.

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