Google Geonews: Biking Directions in Google Maps, New StreetView Imagery, and more

A lot of recent major Google geonews lately.

Google made the announcement of the addition of biking directions in Google Maps: "This route avoids hills (phew!) and puts me on the Burke-Gilman trail for most of the journey. When I need to get off the trail to cross town, biking directions makes sure to keep me on bike-friendly roads and avoid some of the city's busiest intersections. The time estimate for the route is based on a complex set of variables accounting for the type of road, terrain and turns over the course of my ride. [...] When Map Maker is available in the U.S., all riders will be able to directly contribute their local knowledge about trails, bike lanes and suggested routes.".

On the Google Lat Long blog, you'll get more information regarding those biking directions: "[...] I can lift the curtain and explain the many factors and variables that we've had to take into account to put this whole feature together [...]".

Obviously, offered bike routes are not perfect and will improve over time.

There's an official entry on the major StreetView imagery update. Mapperz shows a map where we learn almost all of U.K. is now available in StreetView.

You can now also edit places directly in StreetView. Also adding to integration, there's a new 'Edit this place' capability in Google Maps.

There's also Barcelona now in 3D in Google Earth.

The GEB offers a nice wrap-up entry named playing games in Google Earth.

Read more of this story at Slashgeo.

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