April 28, 2005
Canada on Fire, Entire Continents Missing
I was looking for Tokyo, Japan to see how detailed the maps were. I was thinking of creating a mapped journal of an upcoming vacation there. According to Google maps, Japan has sunk into the ocean. I can understand not having detailed roadmaps for some countries just yet, but there should at least be a very general place holder there for the continent. Mexico has a place holder.
I looked around some more to see what countries outside of America are included so far, and I found that the UK has a very nice looking map. As does Canada. I think. Zooming in on the British Columbia area, it looks like roads are few and far between. Somehow, I think this is the way it actually is rather than a lack of detail on Google's part. To make sure, I checked the satellite image of the area.
I saw this interesting shot northwest of Prince George in British Columbia. 
Dang, that's a big fire...