Subject: maps.google.com<br/>
Date: Feb 11, 2005 @ 02:36<br/>
Author: Roger_Rowlett (&quot;Roger_Rowlett&quot; &lt;roger.rowlett@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1706038595">If you want to take a look at the next great thing take a look at:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://maps.google.com">http://maps.google.com</a><br/>
<br/>
It currently only works for the Lower 48 of the U.S. but Google is <br/>
promising to eventually roll it out for the world.  It has the <br/>
niceties we expect from Google (no ads and simple interface) and <br/>
three killer features: astonishingly fast and the ability to drag <br/>
the map around with your mouse (a dhtml trick), and the maps are <br/>
huge -- no more postage stamp strain!<br/>
<br/>
Some nits this group will no doubt find annoying is that it doesn&#39;t <br/>
place a pinpoint on longitude/latitude locations such as mapquest or <br/>
even yahoo maps (although when you bookmark a location it is <br/>
longitude/latitude based).  Addresses have push pins though.  You <br/>
can search for locations using &quot;latitude, longitude&quot; decimal pairs <br/>
(although this is not currently documented).  Google has promised to <br/>
address the pinpoint issue.</div>