Google was recently the talk of the town after rolling out some shiny new street maps in South Africa. At first everyone thought it was only updates to the Johannesburg Street Maps however trusting Google to go BIG or go home it has come to my attention that they have updated almost all of the street maps in South Africa, well at least on my Mobile Maps symbian S60 3rd Edition. WOW thats a huge jump, thanks guys.

There are still a few glitches in the update and the screenshots below highlight just one such bug.

Lets take a look at the updated Google Mobile Maps for South Africa. For the screenshots above I used the small but friendly village of Natures Valley. When viewing Natures Valley in “map view” you will see that there are no maps, in fact you wouldn’t even know there was a village, sorry dudes your village is to small for Google, well thats at least what I thought. Switching to “Satellite view” though, changes everything and you will be presently surprised to see the entire little village and all street names market out.

With the fifa 2010 world cup soccer just around the corner, things are sure shaping up in South Africa and it’s great to see that more and more firms are updating their applications to make them user friendly in South Africa. Good work Google - Now lets see streetview South Africa already

Ps. The screenshots above are powered by: Best screensnap symbain S60 5th edition a cool new free application for the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music.

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