Google seems to be on a roll lately with new features, and they certainly didn’t forget Google Maps.

Street View, the Google tool that allows you to view street level photography on some maps, got a major boost in coverage this week.  According to The Official Google Blog, Street View had coverage of 23 major U.S. cities at the beginning of 2008, but now they boast international cities such as Paris and Tokyo, and the United States saw their coverage double.  You know Street View is everywhere when even my town of Kirksville, MO gets coverage, albeit only our main road, Baltimore.

Google seems to be on an end-of-the-year rampage what with adding to-do lists in Gmail, Friend Connect for web sites, Gmail support in Google Desktop and more.  Usually technicians don’t like to launch new features in December due to support issues going in to the holidays, but it does seem to be deterring Google at all, if any thing, they seem to have accelerated their releases.  It may only seem this way because they have so many items to add more support for now, but it does seem like an awful lot of new releases for the last month of the year.

With three weeks left to go in 2008, you have to wonder what else Google might be holding up their collective sleeves.