High-Resolution Imagery for Google Maps. Google Earth Is Next

Several new additions for Google Maps were already rolled out but the parent company Google didn't announce them officially. Just like the past updates, this new set of imagery brings high-resolution photos for two new locations: India and the United Arab Emirates. As the Google Earth Blog reports, this improvement is currently compatible only with Google Maps but the parent company Google plans to include it into the downloadable solution in the upcoming weeks.

According to the same source, Google Maps now allows searching for India addresses and local businesses. "You can now see detailed roads for the UAE. You can't yet search for addresses. Support for searching for businesses is not built-in, but you can search and see web results for things people have already marked with KML," the blog mentioned about the United Arab Emirates update.

Google Maps is a web-based solution that allows users to view satellite maps straight from the window of the browser without installing anything. Recently, the parent company debuted Street View, a revolutionary function that brought the Mountain View giant into trouble after several users raised privacy concerns. The main reason was that Google Maps' new function shows way too many details because some of the consumers were able to view private stuff from their houses.

In addition, the US authorities reported that Google's mapping tools, Google Maps and Google Earth, were used by the terrorists to organize attacks against the nation. Although they managed to discover the attempt before anything happened, the terrorists admitted they were using the Google solutions to view detailed photos with the JFK International Airport.

In the past, there were several similar cases but every time the parent company blocked the attempts by replacing the imagery with older ones. The best example is Basra where the terrorists tried to attack the UK troops using details offered by Google Earth. Google replaced the photos with older ones captured before the departure of the army in the zone.