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From: Lowell G. McManus [mailto:mcmanus71496@...]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:53 PM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] maps.google.comKevin,As an experiment, I typed in "garfield co", and it gave me ten businesses and public offices in Kansas and Oklahoma, centered around Coffeyville, Kansas. None were on Flynn Avenue.Here's what it's doing: If it doesn't find exactly what you type, it looks for close matches within a certain radius of where the map is centered at the moment. (When the map appears upon initial entry to the site, it's centered on Coffeyville, Kansas. These matches are based on the Google caches of web sites as well as on addresses. Re-center the map elsewhere, and you'll get different results.I centered the map in Georgia and typed "garfield co." I got several businesses. The first was a tractor dealership not named Garfield. I clicked the link in the tractor dealership's listing, and I got a web page listing all dealerships nationwide for a certain brand of tractors. I used my browser to find Garfield on that page. Sure enough, a tractor dealership in Minnesota was on Garfield Road.Perhaps the Flynn Ave. reference was a coincidence.You will find Garfield, Colorado, atLowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA----- Original Message -----From: Flynn, KevinSent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:53 PMSubject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] maps.google.comI 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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