A question for the map people:
Apr 17, 2008 by Joseph Reeves
Why are Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru; North and South Korea missing from Google Maps?
Argentina doesn't have a capital (I had to look it up on OpenStreetMap to remind my self of what it was called. It looks really cool) and Paraguay just has a blob of something; roads stop when they should probably keep going; politically charged borders split one white expanse from another.
Explanations on a particularly graphical post card please.
There is at least some data for Peru - just major highways and places. Similar coverage to Y! maps - I found there was just about enough coverage to georef photos in flickr.
Argentina is odd - might be a licensing issue as it looks as if it was once present Funnily enough there's also no link to the maps site from http://www.google.com.ar/intl/es/options/
Posted by Andrew Larcombe on April 18, 2008 at 06:10 AM BST #
Turn on the satellite images on Google Maps to see just how poor the cartography is, especially in Argentina.
Posted by Dave_Mole on April 18, 2008 at 07:36 AM BST #
Well the cartocraphy is probably just the plain old vmap0.. On the other hand, openstreetmap added a great "export" tab, a "map key", a scale, and tens of thousands of points are being added every day. Stay tuned :)
BTW - google maps has only one road for bhutan ;)
Posted by Yann on April 21, 2008 at 09:40 AM BST #