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Google Maps, Local Expand To UK
Koushiro writes "From Google's official blog comes word that Google Maps UK and Google Local UK have been launched, confirming speculations that the search engine giant would continue to expand its regional services to an international audience. The seemingly logical next step, of course, would be to expand coverage to Western Europe, but given the input Google's UK office had into this project, can we expect Google Maps India next?"
But no Satellite mapping as yet... Still playing catchup.
Kilroy Silk isn't in UKIP anymore. He's formed his own party "Veritas".
The name comes from the latin : "Verity" meaning "True" and "Ass", meaning "Robert Kilroy Silk".
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
It exists already, just isn't integrated with .uk TLD. Go to regular Google Maps, scroll right to UK, and choose Satelite. HTH,
But Ireland as well.
We've also got Google SMS now, which is actually useful.
You misspelt 'Tit' as 'Mr'
very nice though several newish roads (2-3 years old by now) near me arn't on the maps.
Because you had to know the address of the chipshop to get that URL.
Google found on the basis of "Find a chippy near my house."
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
It's not like you can go visit anyway. They errected huge steel gates at the end of Downing street years ago. All you can do if peer through the railings.
Philip
Signatures are broken
The road numbering started out as loosely based on which direction from London the road heads. The M1 goes north from London, as does the A1. The A11 is a bit further around, the A110 further still. I'm sure there's a website somewhere that explains the numbering better.
Although I am a google fan, I have been using for quite some time the Map24 page after someone in /. pointed at it. I find it quite useful and the interface is pretty cool (Real time map find using Java or No Java option.
I find it quite useful to look for places in Europe when going to a conference or vacations, that and the HostelWorld are pretty cool pages, now, there is something I have seen no Map page do, that is, to add Bus line information to the maps, I know in some countrys it would be rather difficult but, in UK, there is Arriva, MerseyTravel and other companies whose lines and journeys are very well defined, now, if someone adds that functionality it will be THE map web page I will use =o).
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
I played with this a bit. Plan a route from, say, Bristol to Belfast, and Google will include the ferry from Holyhead to Dublin. So, my guess: not very long at all.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Google Maps UK does look nice and I expect I'll make some use of it. However, one of the things I like about Multimap is that you can actually see the Ordnance Survey map, which gives you loads of lovely detail, including topographic information. This is very nice if you're just looking for a scenic ride.
No, but most european countries have suitable projections optimized for the country. So Great Britain should use OSGB36 and Ireland should use the Irish National Grid, and so on and so forth. Instead they look to have imposed some WGS84 based projection on us.
After getting lost in Haryana once, I figured out that most roads here do not have names, and even if they do, no one is quite sure where they go...
You could probably map the "official" areas of big cities like Delhi or Mumbai, but forget about the slums or village India.
On that zoom level, they have satellite views for the whole world. But if you try to zoom in a bit (zoom level 6 of 15), you get the message "We're sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region. Try zooming out for a broader look."
Still using Americanisms as well: "Take the ramp to Stansted/London" for example. Ramp? What is this, a BMX stunt course?
Frankly I will be sticking with streetmap.co.uk, multimap.com and the OS's own website that have the highly detailed, instantly recognizable to anyone from the U.K. Ordnance Survey 1:50000 and 1:25000 topographic maps of Great Britain on them. They also have the easily recognisable Bartholomew and OS road atlas maps. In comparison the TeleAtlas road maps suck.
Yes, but the whole of the Island of Ireland is included in the maps, both Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and Eire (a separate country). I apologise to the Irish for not being completely correct in my posting WHEN MAKING A JOKE! Same about the UKIP / Kilroy stuff I know he left the party but I really couldn't be bothered to remember the name of the new lot. BTW, I am British so I am insulted by being called American. Call me Canadian and I wouldn't care :-) Those Canucks are cool, eh! Go Habs!
The Isles of Scilly are there too (which I think are ours), but not the Channel Islands (which are sort of ours but kind of independant too). None of it's painted red, anyway...
So, sorry everyone. I will check my facts better before posting.
Phil
It seems to me that its no coincidence that Map24 is also a good service - if you check their home page www.uk.map24.com then they are announcing a collaboration with Google. Methinks this is where Google got their map data from, and perhaps some of the software.
It's nice, but it's missing quite a lot of places - try searching for the Millennium Stadium (in Cardiff), the National Exhibition Centre (Birmingham), Bristol Temple Meads station, Birmingham New Street station, Edinburgh Waverly station or Cardiff Central station (I tried stations because it gave Paddington as an example and they have unique names, so it should be easy for it to find them if it knows about them.)
When he releases a #1 hit hes English, when hes annoying people he's Irish. ;)
Incidently Irish laws on maps is pretty strict. For example if I was to draw a map on a napkin of somewhere in Ireland the Irish government automatically own it.
You generally have to get permission before displaying Irish maps, even if you created it yourself. Surprised there is no (c) showing when you look at the Irish parts.
The UKIP needn't worry though. The party is replete with arseholes, bigots, eccentrics, xenophobes and nutcases.
Google Maps UK directions tell you to turn left onto the first turning for 0.0 miles and then to turn left onto the exit you want, at every roundabout. Just going from my home to my work it messed up on five roundabouts. It even happens when just crossing a roundabout. Do they have roundabouts in the States?
http://www.hot-maps.de/index.html
and if you want good sat photos, download nasa's WorldWind earth viewer.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
I love the smooth transitioning. But as far as detail goes, there isn't even any junction numbers on the roads. Not very useful when planning a journey. I think I will stick with http://www.multimap.com/ in the meantime!
The UK road numbering system is explained nicely on this page.
Also good for information is: www.uk-roads.co.uk
They're numbered in a spiral out from London. The A1 goes north to edinburgh along the east coast, A2 into kent, A3 south to portsmouth, A4 to wales and A5 to Birmingham, with the A6 going north to Edinburgh (historically) by the west coast. Then the A7 goes south from Edinburgh to meet the A6, the A8 goes west to Glasgow, and the A9 north to Inverness. Then coming back to London we have the A10 up to Cambridge, the A11 out towards Norwich, A12 to Ipswich, A13 out to Chelmsford, A14 confusingly elsewhere, but then A15 going more southerly and so on until we get to A69, all of these starting gradually further from the dome of St Paul's which is taken as the centre of London. After this the A70-A99 are numbered in a spiral from Edinburgh, A100-699 from London and so on. The green ones are primary routes, in rare cases B roads can also be green roads, and link up a set of "primary destinations". Generally these are straighter and faster roads than the red ones, with more service stations, etc. B roads (which are normally yellow rather than orange) are numbered similarly, but motorways are different, instead taking the number of the nearby A road. Thus there are plenty of gaps in the motorway numbering, for example there is an M20 but no M19, and the M5 starts nowhere near London, it's just long and vaguely near the A5. Also, when an A road is upgraded to a motorway it keeps its name, just with a (M) afterwards, so we have the A1(M) for large sections of the A1 route.
I am trolling
I pretty much use the Eicher map to get anywhere in Bangalore. The level of detail is about as good as Google maps at full zoom, maybe a little better.
Online driving directions may not work, but an online map of that detail of major indian cities would be incredibly popular
There are motorway-class A roads to which motorway regulations do not apply, but they are just called the Ax, instead of the Ax(M). An obvious example is the A282, the road which connects Essex and Kent and which is often mistaken for the M25. It looks like a motorway, has a hard shoulder and everything, but the road signs are green instead of blue, and if you are suitably insane you can try cycling on it. You can't cycle on the A1(M).
You'll notice that stretches of A-road which are upgraded to motorways always have a parallel route, often constructed out of one of the carriageways of the original A-road, precisely for traffic which is not allowed on motorways. The A1000 in Hertfordshire (shown here in yellow) is a good example.
In fact entire global image is there in the google satellite images. These images are called NASA Blue marble Images. A zoom of up to 6 notches we can see images. India is not far in Googles sight...