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Google Maps Graduates
Anonymous writes "It appears that Google's dynamic, interactive map program, Google Maps, has finally made it out of the labs. Now it has merged with Google Local and has been updated on the homepage. Another great stride in Google's quest to conquer the internet." Graduation covered by PC Magazine. From the article: "Now, when you query Google Local (local.google.com), a map pops up, displaying the many businesses and services that match you query. If you search on "Pizza in San Francisco," for instance, it displays a map of San Francisco sprinkled with red tabs pointing to various pizza parlors. It also lists each restaurant down the right side of your browser."
I liked it more when the map was aligned to the left. ._O
- shazow
Am I the only one who thought Google was mapping college graduates, density maps of different degrees and fields, and other related things such as that?
Bring On Google Maps with Taged location info, FOR OTHER PLANETS :)
XML - A clever joke would be here if
by "conquering" the web, does he mean "filling it with useful applications and tools for public use"?
?
I just wish Google Earth was available for MacOS or Linux. I saw someone demo it on a Windows box, and it looked extremely cool.
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Why does Pizza come from Parlours?
What other parlours are there?
Beauty Parlours.
What else?
Why is a burger joint not a Hambuger parlour?
I get White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC. Is this like the satellite maps where some entries can be ten years old?
I found 50 BS, 25 Masters and 5 PhDs within one block!
What is this about the "ruling the internet"? All they did was merge Google Local and Google Maps, two GOOGLE services. How is that ruling the internet? Frankly, they just made Local more helpful.
Not only "land of the free" but "land of the lawyers" who love a good old 1st amendment smackdown. Shihar 153932
Still no changes to the use of Google Maps API, thankfully. Maps embedded in your own webpages do not (yet) show any advertising material.
Long may that continue...
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http://www.google.com/apis/maps/, hopefully it will be out in release sometime soon, along with a free geocoder from google.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=jfk+to+350+5th+ave,+ new+york&ll=40.742786,-73.965835&spn=0.018008,0.02 7805&t=k&hl=en
Spam: Any activity on internet to gain popularity without paying to advertising companies like Google.
I went to the local Google maps and typed in al qaeda, terrorist, criminal, shifty, greedy and etc... Everytime it pointed to places in Kansas. I even typed in Osama Bin Laden and guess where it showed him at... You guessed it Kansas!
See all that money spent on Intel work and all we really need to do to track down all the badness in the world is use Google maps.
News Reporters Make Tasty Polar Bear Treats!
The moon is, of course, a satellite, despite the fact that (according to google) it's only marginally smaller than pluto.
For the love of God, please learn to spell "ridiculous"!!!
FlashEarth is soo much better (for me). You even get the coordinates in real time as you move around the map (which is important for me).
Google maps has some pretty striking before-and-after coverage of the hurricane. Click on 'satellite' and then 'katrina' and spot the difference. It's fairly striking.
Not only awkward, but an invasion of privacy! Why is Google mapping graduates? Just because some gets a degree gives Google the right to track them?!? :)
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Google maps now that you graduated I have one word...........
Plastics!
"(I) have this unfortunate condition that causes me not to believe a single thing any politician says when a mic's on.
Still missing exit numbers on the expressways, though...
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
Because knowing the specials in San Francisco is more important than expanding coverage in other countries, in many of which you can only find cities (if that).
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Damn, I wish this feature had been around when I was single.
Searches like this would have been SO much easier.
Planning a night out with the sales staff would have been a snap.
Now all they need is a button to plot a course from your home, to the chain of clubs for the night on the town.
Of course if this one were to actually work, dating in my "Sowing my Wild Oats" days would have been just as easy.
Again, the ability to map a course would be useful.
Google, all you need to be a 21st century digital player.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
whew, i can't even use google maps anymore, it doesn't fit on my fujitsu p1510 screen with that crazy right hand change!!! now i have to physically move the browser off the screen to the left, just to see the map. what are they thinking? i can't be the only one with this problem...any comments??
There are still plenty of things that need to be done to improve Google Maps:
*) Better routes. MapQuest still tends to provide better driving directions. They need to tune it better to select the best route.
*) Newer images. The satellite imagery is about 5 years old in my area, and others are older and lower resolution. They need a consistent plan to update the images.
*) Multiple-stop routes. I want to be able to plan a route that goes from point A to point B to point C. Similarly, I want to be able to look at the route from A to B and force it to take an alternate path. So just how much longer is that senic route?
Google Maps is great, but I wish it wasn't so obsessed with US highway designations. Take the road between Dallas, TX and Denton, TX. On every other map it shows as I-35E, but Google Maps puts US 77 shields all over the place. I don't think the road is even marked on road signs as US 77.
Almost everywhere, the interstate highway designations should take priority over the US highway designations. I've reported this as a bug, but I've seen no response.
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
At work I'm running at 1024x768 and the white space is just huge compared to a screen with 1600x1200 resolution. Two thumbs down. Bring back the old google maps!
I've been following the evolution of Google Maps for a while now. You can tell it's a killer app when people begin developing more applications around it and using it in ways the original developer never guessed.
Here are some of my favorite Google Map apps :
My recent favorite: Live streaming New York traffic cams integrated with Google Maps.
Track your GPS enabled vehicle live.
Use Craigslist home listings with Google Maps Cheap, plentiful phone cams with GPS flooding the market have spawned Geobloggers. Thousands of shots from GPS enabled Phone cams, posted to Flickr accompanied with the longitude/lattitude co-ordinates.
UFO's have been spotted. Still no certainty about what they are, but fun anyway.
Just emerging are: Google Maps merged with recently released prisoner data, Wireless hotspots, nearest grassroots recommended restaurants, cash machines...
Wireless access, Google maps, and tagging will create sticky location-based fountains of useful knowledge.
This is one to watch. There's no telling what will spin off next.
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Apparently, those savages in Austrailia don't have roads.
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Your search for pub near Dublin Ireland did not match any locations.
NASA's Worldwind software is similar and is a .NET app,
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so there's a Linux version for Mono underway that I'm told
mostly works already (it's mostly a reimplementation using the
same data).
More info and pretty screenshot in Miguel de Icaza's blog:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2005/Sep-30-1.htm
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=from%3A+Riverside,+C A+92507+to%3A+8570+Costa+Verde+Blvd,+San+Diego,+CA +92122&f=d&hl=en
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Merge on to I-5 N (Go 20 miles)
Exit 51C
Merge on to I-5 S (Go 22 miles)
Random 40 mile detour?