A handful of new features have just been rolled out for the international versions of Live Maps.
Live Search Maps China has just had a handful of additions and improvements, including:
- Real-time Traffic in Beijing
- Send-to-Mobile for free for local search and transit routing result
- Transit data refresh for existing 11 cities including 3 new subway in Beijing (No.10, Airport and Olympic).
- Expanded coverage from 11 to 31 cities.
- Geocoding and Local Search
- Data refresh for existing 114 cities including Olympic Venues.
- Support city and county name geocoding for areas outside of 114-city coverage.
- Olympic query relevance improvement
- Local search category refinement
- Map refresh for 10 existing major cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou etc.
- Expanded tile coverage for 30 more cities, totally 289 cities now.