Google has announced a suite of new features designed to transform how we experience the world through its Earth and Maps platforms.

Every so often, services like Google Maps, Waze, and Earth receive new features to make them more useful or even entertaining. Now, the company has announced that Google Maps‘ Street View is reaching more countries.

For people who want to explore other places in the world today, Google is launching what it calls one of the biggest updates to Street View yet -- new street-view imagery from nearly 80 countries. This update lets users view more content in those countries taken by Google's Street View cars and trekkers.

Updated Street View imagery is also coming to more than 80 countries. A handful of updates are coming to Google Maps and Google Earth, including more imagery across popular and less visited locations, and fewer clouds and haze in satellite pictures (thanks to AI).

Google Maps is getting a massive Street View overhaul that includes an expansion to approximately 80 new countries worldwide

Google Street View is getting new imagery in nearly 80 countries, and Google is also using AI to sharpen its satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps.

An example of this enhanced imagery is a composite image with Cloud Score+ that vividly displays Egypt 's Toshka Lakes. For the first time, Street View is available in Bosnia, Namibia, Liechtenstein,