Google comes to Georgia’s Adjara region
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The location and operation details of 70 recently new agricultural cooperatives in Georgia’s Adjara region are now available on Google maps.
These farming businesses, which were established in the region in the past three years, brought together up to 250 local farmers in a variety of agriculture areas, including fruit and berry processing, citrus and hazelnut plantations, fisheries and honey production.
All farmers received technical assistance and consultancy from the European Union and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the European Neighbourhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD).
Georgia is currently benefitting from €52 million in support for agricultural and rural development through the EU-funded ENPARD program.
Georgia is teaming up with Norway to create the country’s first digital topographical map since 1991, showing detailed natural and man-made features that will be extremely helpful for locals and foreigners exploring the country.
Abkhazia – one of the Russian-occupied regions of Georgia – is now being referred to as the ‘Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia’ instead of ‘Republic of Abkhazia’ on Google Maps after one Georgian internet user challenged the online spelling.
One of the world’s most widely-used online mapping services has added Tbilisi to its worldwide service. Every street and any building in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is now in focus on Google Maps – an online mapping service that offers satellite imagery, street maps and street view perspectives of the city.
Complete information detailing five of Georgia’s main cities will soon be published on Google Maps.
The capital city of Abkhazia – one of the Russian-occupied regions of Georgia – is now being referred to as ‘Sokhumi’ instead of ‘Sukhumi’ on Google Maps after one Georgian internet user challenged the online spelling.
Georgia has started creating cadastral maps of its vineyards, preparing alphanumeric information about viticulture and vineyards, including varieties and other characteristics.
Georgia’s western, coastal Adjara region has become even more popular tourism destination as number of those who have visited the region’s mountainous villages has increased 90 percent.
Adding Georgian to Google speech recognition system means that some powerful Google products, including Voice Search, the Assistant and Gboard which is capable of typing up entire messages based on what is dictated to it, can now be enjoyed by about 4 million Georgians in their native language.
Locations and landmarks on Google Maps will now be available to users in Georgian, as the language was among nearly 40 new additions to the popular platform.