Google freshened up the imagery inside Maps today, adding new visual information to convey terrain, vegetation, and natural land formations. Color shading now shows vegetation more clearly, and ...

L: The new terrain and vegetation overlay; R: the old look of Google Maps Further, it’s somewhat marvelous to be able to see important geological areas labelled.

Google is giving its Maps service a visual refresh with some new features that showcase the natural world. New terrain shading and labels in Google Maps highlight forests, deserts, and mountain ...

Google has shown this Maps update in a collection of great examples including Brazil and Columbia (with the African Basin) and Southern Asia – now covered with luscious vegetation. Advertisement ...

Google announced they have now made terrain and vegetation data as part of the base map view on Google Maps. Here is a before and after view: As you can see, the terrain, color gradations to ...

Google Maps has gained some more features from Google Earth this week, including the ability for a group to collaborate on map updates, and the addition of a terrain maps feature, according to the ...