Google Maps will get even more useful with the help of those Street View cars

Google Maps is about to get a whole lot more accurate. (Good timing, Google Maps!)

Google announced in a research blog post on Wednesday that the company plans to automatically update Maps with clearly visible street names, numbers, and businesses, gathered with the help of Street View technology.

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The update comes from researchers with Google's "Ground Truth" team, which works to enable extraction of information —businesses' names from store fronts, for example — from the street view imagery and use it to improve Google Maps. Read more...