- We have published over 5 million sq km of imagery from the new GeoEye-1 satellite
- More than 700 million unique Google Earth user activations.
- Over 20 million photos uploaded to Panoramio
- Our users make tens of thousands of corrections to local data and map data per day.
- Every day, Maps and Earth users spend over 1 million hours browsing geo content.
- We offer detailed street maps in more than 100 countries.
- Over 40 million maps have been created by users.
- 900,000+ active sites use the Maps API.
- The satellite imagery in Google Earth/Maps covers over 25% of the world’s land surface and over 60% of the world’s population in sub-meter high resolution. We have 50% land mass coverage and 75% population covered at 2.5m resolution or better.
- 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies are visible through Google Sky, some of which have never been seen by the human eye.
- After the launch of Google Map Maker in Pakistan, users mapped 25,000 kilometers of uncharted roads in just two months (video about Maps Maker at TED)
- Street View covers 21 countries
- The U.K. and Netherlands launch of Street View proved so popular that visits to Google Maps U.K. increased by 41%. The U.S. Google Maps site (which is used by people around the world) received an 84% increase in visits. [HitWise]
- Street View imagery is viewed millions of times every day
- Millions of people use Google Transit every week
- In the US, the partner agencies in Google Transit cover around 70% of the nation's riders
- Google Transit is available in over 200 regions worldwide
- Over 2 million Google Places users in the US, 4 million worldwide
- 50 million Place pages in Google Maps and local search
- Biking directions has detailed bike trail & bike lane data in over 200 cities
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