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Using Google Maps With a Photo Album
neil1979 writes "This site has a tutorial on using Google Maps with your photo album. Each album has a latitude and longitude so it shows up as a pin on a map of the world. When you click a pin, up pops the highlight photo for the albums at that location. Clicking again brings up that album. Makes a great front page to a gallery. Includes a demo with 200 albums from the author's travels. He provides all his code for interfacing with Google maps. Seriously awesome feature for people who travel a lot."
... most people can't even pinpoint the U.S. on the world map.
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Yahoo Maps [...] which is mediocre compared to Google Maps
Whine, bitch, moan, complain. I'm tired of Google apologists like yourself who would probably even be okay with them eating babies ("so long as they're not being *evil* about it"), who make baseless calls on Google properties vs. product X based on a single feature.
If the zoom level in Yahoo Maps is the single feature that keeps you using Google Maps, I'm not sure you're using it correctly. You're probably looking at your mediocre house and find it mediocre that you can't properly see your mediocre yard. Unless you're in a major city, Google often doesn't have high resolution satellite coverage anyway.
If you actually get driving directions: set your start from a favorites location, enter a destination, follow a route, print a hardcopy, send a link... you'd find that Yahoo is quite excellent. I dare you to try using it next time you need directions.
Although I did notice that Flickr still uses the *old* Javascript interface - the new one (which you may be ignorant of) has moved to a more modern flash-based client that dramatically upstages Google's Javascript dinosaur.