Google refines United States map -- InformationWeek

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) on Wednesday announced the addition of new datasets to Google Maps to expand the breadth of geographic information available to users.

"Today you may notice that the United States looks a bit different in Google Maps -- all of that new green park land was probably a giveaway," said Google engineer Andrew Lookingbill in a blog post. "That's because we've worked directly with a wide range of authoritative information sources to create a new base map dataset."...