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Google Offers Hybrid Satellite and Map View

Posted by Zonk on from the best-of-both-worlds dept.

That's Unpossible! writes "Google Maps now offers a hybrid view which combines their map view with their satellite view. The Google blog has a notice on the update. It appears to use 8-bit alpha transparent PNGs to make it work."

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  1. Cool! by ballstothat · · Score: 2, Funny
    This is a great development. As a delivery person for certain "items", it will be great to have an overview of roads and traffic patterns for my "stops" on my "route", especially when traveling to new areas.

    It was so tiring carefully printing out the satellite views and then cutting out the roadmaps in thin slivers to fit over my printouts.

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  2. This'll come in handy... by The+I+Shing · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is certainly bad news for all those girls I've been stalking.

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    1. Re:This'll come in handy... by kai.chan · · Score: 2, Funny

      To all the inflatable dolls and lonely men from mIRC out there, run for your lives before it is too late!

  3. Re:I wonder ... by dariuscardren · · Score: 4, Funny

    Earthsized?

  4. Re:endless praise by FosterKanig · · Score: 0, Funny

    I think you are using it wrong.

  5. Re:I guess "regular" maps can now be officially by Ron+Bennett · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jumped the gun on that one - I should have taken another look before posting...

    Google finally listened and recently added a distance scale - it wasn't there the other day.

    Now Google Maps is finally complete :)

    Ron

  6. Poor Guy... by Ghoser777 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ouch, you must be on dial-up. My condolences. Maybe you can write google and see if they can do an ascii version to speed up the downloads.

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  7. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  8. Re:Google Moon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Go to http://moon.google.com/ - zoom all the way in. If you can't find your way around a hunk of that stuff, you need to spend less time on Slashdot.