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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
Bring On Google Maps with Taged location info, FOR OTHER PLANETS :)
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by "conquering" the web, does he mean "filling it with useful applications and tools for public use"?
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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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I get White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC. Is this like the satellite maps where some entries can be ten years old?
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.
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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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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.
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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).
Basically it describes the type of atmosphere. It has fallen out of favor in the United States and thus tends to indicate a slightly anachronistic feel (much like pub, tavern and diner). Like the word diner (used as a type of restaurant, not the original meaning of a railroad deployed diner), the phrase "parlor" tends to have a 50s feel and new places with either parlor or diner in their name tend toward an American Graffiti idealized view of the 50s.
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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!
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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!