Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Google Maps: when are these guys gonna slow down?!?

Just stumbled across Google Maps. Google hits another one out of the park... This takes the Web map experience to a whole new plane, with a level of interactivity and
ease of use that makes Mapquest seem so mid-90s.

http://www.google.com/help/maps/tour/
These guys are unbelievable!

I did find a funny glitch. They brag that you can quickly locate, say, a sushi restaurant. So I tried searching for "sushi East Lansing" and one of the listings was a little wacky:



It looks like they conflated items from the events calendar for Calvin College and turned a conservation club into a sushi joint!

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