Very cool! The group I work with recently had some interesting results when comparing Yahoo and Google Maps. Among other things, we found that Yahoo is much better with directions on street addresses. For example, Yahoo will convert "North" to "N" and "South" to "S" automatically, whereas Google will ask you the "Did you Mean _____?" question.
I remembered this story on NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor yId=5140674) that did a comparison of the different online maps and their accuracy. Quite interesting that they all use very similar (if not the same) data.
What about the fact that the little finger reader at the 7-eleven is going to be all nasty from people swiping their dirty fingers across it all day? Gross! If there's one way to spread some avian flu around, this is it! Oh, and airplanes, too.
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Very cool! The group I work with recently had some interesting results when comparing Yahoo and Google Maps. Among other things, we found that Yahoo is much better with directions on street addresses. For example, Yahoo will convert "North" to "N" and "South" to "S" automatically, whereas Google will ask you the "Did you Mean _____?" question. I remembered this story on NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor yId=5140674) that did a comparison of the different online maps and their accuracy. Quite interesting that they all use very similar (if not the same) data.
What about the fact that the little finger reader at the 7-eleven is going to be all nasty from people swiping their dirty fingers across it all day? Gross! If there's one way to spread some avian flu around, this is it! Oh, and airplanes, too.