Google Maps Goes European

Here's some very interesting news, via the spool:

now has street maps of most European cities, including quite some interestingly non-obvious ones. Saarbrücken is there, for instance, as is Milan (which would have been extremely handy ) and, of course, the Mothership.

Best of all, of course, is an awesome data set for Lisbon, which seems to match the one in but with directional arrows for traffic.

Update: João points out that we're missing public transportation markers, and that there are still a few glitches:

However, despite the new datum and street names, local searches still don't work everywhere (Paris being an exception, since I managed to find an old office I visited years back), and neither the J2ME Google/Local client nor Mobile Gmaps seem to be able to access the new data.

I can, however, view a bitmap representation of the maps on my , and use the debug menu to change my User-Agent string to and get those bitmaps:

With luck, Mobile Gmaps will be updated pretty soon and I'll be able to call up a street map on my (or even the crappy RAZR I'm testing) anywhere in Europe - then we'll start having some serious fun.