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Google Maps added a layer that shows webcams from all over the world. You can enable it by clicking on "More..." and selecting "Webcams".

Google displays webcams from the aggregator webcams.travel, a site that lists more than 9000 webcams. "All the webcams from Webcams.travel are now available on the integrated layer of Google Maps. This was made possible within the cooperation of Webcams.travel with Google," explains Webcams.travel's blog.

If you click on a thumbnail, Google will show "a snapshot of the camera that has been taken in the last 15 minutes". You'll need to click on the snapshot twice (first at Google Maps and then at webcams.travel) to get to the source and see the live webcam.

Google Map Maker - Success shown!

Most of our lives are local. Google has rarely been more challenged in its mission than in providing maps and local information to users in countries where there has never been any detailed digital map.

NGOs will tell you that they need good maps to help develop many of these regions but traditionally, great maps are only created once a place is already developed.

This was the motivation behind the launch of mapmaker.google.com almost a year ago, giving users the power to solve this problem for good. Today, we see that promise fulfilled as Google launches the first generation maps for the following 64 new countries and territories on maps.google.com:

New Features...

Since launching Google Map Maker, our user-contributed "wiki-map", we've gotten a lot of great user feedback. Two of our top requested features are to more easily get data into and out of Google Map Maker. We've recently begun to address the latter with a variety of efforts ranging from making Google Map Maker tiles available in the Maps API to allowing shp and kml file download for some of the Google Map Maker data.

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