This “ghostly” runway effect points to how Google makes its maps cloudless in the first place. Its remoteness gives it a unique ecology, but-given its location in the middle of the tropical Indian Ocean-it is frequently obscured by clouds. Almost a thousand miles from Australia, the island was largely untouched by human settlement until the past two centuries. The improvements can be seen in the new map’s depiction of Christmas Island. Google had not updated its low- and medium-resolution satellite map in three years. Most importantly, this new map contains fewer clouds than before-only the second time Google has unveiled a “cloudless” map. The new map, which activates this week for all users of Google Maps and Google Earth, consists of orbital imagery that is newer, more detailed, and of higher contrast than the previous version. Google has added nearly 1.5 trillion pixels of new data to its service *. On Monday, it gets a makeover, and its many users will see something different when they examine the planet’s forests, fields, seas, and cities.
More than 1 billion people use Google Maps every month, making it possibly the most popular atlas ever created.
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