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Mapping Google Maps
jgwebber writes "Google Maps is starting to cause a bit of a stir as Google makes the browser do still more backflips than most expected. In the tradition of dissecting Google Suggest and GMail, I've done a little dissecting of this newest service."
Not bad, Google!
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It's definitely still got some bugs! My school, Clarkson University, isn't on the map, and a neigboring school, SUNY Potsdam, is mislabled as Clarkson College. Clarkson College of Technology hasn't existed since the 1980s!
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All you people complaining about Safari compatibility... For some reason I can't get my maps to scroll after they've been printed. I've tried using Epson and Canon printers. If anyone can help let me know.
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I agree, software hates being personified.
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The "standards be damned, we're going to do something cool our way".
I really have trouble seeing it as in any way Google's fault that the standards have failed to deliver browser compatibility.
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What, you thought those black helicopters belonged to the government?
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Keep in mind that Southwest USA is where Google is, and I'm sure they have a much easier time getting geographical data. Besides, it would suck if the Google developers did all that work, got the site up, and it couldn't even show them their own offices!
I find it difficult to believe anything is better or more accurate. It has my grandfather's indiana driveway in it... I about sprayed mtndew all over my new laptop when I saw that.
Groundbreaking? You obviously haven't tried it yet; I would consider this a bigger blow to Mapquest than them hiring Carly Fiorina as CEO.
For now I'm just happy being impressed by the pretty scrolling
I scrolled right for a long time but Europe never came into view.
One of my wife's friends is a retired physics professor. We had a talk once in which he was railing against the anthropomorphization of everyday objects. Since objects aren't supposed to have feelings one way or the other, it got me thinking about how many things in my own life that I anthropomorphize. So given a choice between (a) changing my tendencies to anthropomorphize, or (b) accept that I anthropomorphize and be done with it. Instead I chose (c). I realized that since anthropomorphized objects behave better than non-anthropomorphized objects, that they were the ones wanting to be anthropomorphized. Who was I to argue?
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The images don't show up in Lynx either! The bastards.
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"hateful fearmongers in Washington, DC" returns just one, infinitely appropriate result.
You know, this reminds me: I've noticed that my local sub shop does these things called "Philly cheesesteaks." I immediately filed a complaint, explaining that the majority of this planet's population would not know what "Philly" was. Come to think of it, most would not know what "cheese", "steak", or a "cheeseteak" were either. However, it turns out the neighborhood doesn't really care when they go out for food.
t would be awesome if Google could completely take over the commercial mapping software application market
So what you are saying is that you want Google to have a monopoly?
Well since it's Google - they can be fully trusted - lets give it to them.............
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Anybody remember the old Macintosh Map CDEV? (Or was it a Desk Utility? I can't remember.) It had a location for "Middle of Nowhere". Looks like Google Maps has one too:
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http://maps.google.com/maps?q=middle%20of%20now
What's really interesting is that it's changed since yesterday, when it was located in northern Idaho.
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Absolutely.
However, I take this as a sign they are at least considering something more interesting.
Unless it is just part of their well-known secret plan to produce a Google-branded Firefox, operating system and fast-food chain, of course...
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
Shit, that code practically debugs itself, doesn't it?
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"George W Bush" in Washington, DC
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