I have found some pretty bizarre results from it, however, when it can't locate a place. I typed in a defunct town in Colorado for which I was trying to determine whether there was still a map location, and it took me to Kansas and placed a push pin on a business (I had not asked for a business) that happened to be on " Flynn Avenue ." How did Google pick up my last name and interpret a search for Garfield CO as involving my name in Kansas ?

From: Doug Murray [mailto:doug@...]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:00 PM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] maps.google.com

It's a pretty amazing interface. And they cover Canada too... except highway numbers are shown as being U.S. Interstates.

CAUS is somewhat accurate -- in British Columbia , anyway. However it shows a number of non-existent crossings in Point Roberts.

No coverage of Mexico , either.

But it is still pretty amazing, nonetheless!

Doug

On Thursday, February 10, 2005, at 06:36 PM, Roger_Rowlett wrote:

If you want to take a look at the next great thing take a look at:

http://maps.google.com

It currently only works for the Lower 48 of the U.S. but Google is

promising to eventually roll it out for the world. It has the

niceties we expect from Google (no ads and simple interface) and

three killer features: astonishingly fast and the ability to drag

the map around with your mouse (a dhtml trick), and the maps are

huge -- no more postage stamp strain!

Some nits this group will no doubt find annoying is that it doesn't

place a pinpoint on longitude/latitude locations such as mapquest or

even yahoo maps (although when you bookmark a location it is

longitude/latitude based). Addresses have push pins though. You

can search for locations using "latitude, longitude" decimal pairs

(although this is not currently documented). Google has promised to

address the pinpoint issue.

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