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New Google Maps Feature!
With a new enhancement from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), users can now receive transatlantic driving directions!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...=UTF8&z=4&om=1 |
They've added a My Maps feature today as well. It will be very useful for mapping out where my customers are.
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Originally Posted by rar indeed
(Post 7532887)
With a new enhancement from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), users can now receive transatlantic driving directions!
19. Turn right at Central St 0.1 mi 20. Turn right at Long Wharf 0.1 mi 21. Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi 29 days 0 hours 22. Slight right at E05 0.5 mi 2 mins 23. At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto E05/Pont Vauban 0.1 But, as JAaronT pointed out, they also did issue something new today, the "My Maps". Too bad Google Maps are inherently flawed. They combine geo data with web data, and sometimes old cached web data trumps geo data. (i.e. when you google map my address, it sends you 35 miles away to a my old location; I once googled someone who had been reported in the local police blotter, it put her address at the local newspaper office that reported the story... etc...) |
Originally Posted by rar indeed
(Post 7532887)
With a new enhancement from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), users can now receive transatlantic driving directions!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...=UTF8&z=4&om=1 |
when i google my home, it puts me across a nearby mountain, rather than in the correct spot. nice in theory though.
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Originally Posted by Yaatri
(Post 7534325)
Can you drive across the atlantic? I have never heard of a road bridge that will take you from NYC to London, although there has been talk of a rail bridge.
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Originally Posted by Yaatri
(Post 7534325)
Can you drive across the atlantic? I have never heard of a road bridge that will take you from NYC to London, although there has been talk of a rail bridge.
Do as the Goog tells you. :D |
Somebody tried to walk across the Pacific Ocean. Alas, he did not make it all the way, only got 30 miles from the start. Maybe if he Googled it first ...
NY Times, March 12, 2000: The journey of an Alsatian man who intended to walk across the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia, came to a rapid end about 30 miles off the coast of Los Angeles this week, when his sleeping quarters were destroyed by debris in a storm. The man, Remy Bricka, 50, intended to spend six months crossing the Pacific on pontoonlike skis while towing a catamaran behind him with food and sleeping quarters, but the adventure lasted less than a day. Mr. Bricka said in an interview on Friday that he hit stormy weather and 18-foot swells early Sunday in the first night of his journey. |
I really like this link in my Google Maps, it tells you where you'll come out if you dig a hole through the earth somewhere.
http://map.pequenopolis.com/ |
Originally Posted by BLI-Flyer
(Post 7535006)
I really like this link in my Google Maps, it tells you where you'll come out if you dig a hole through the earth somewhere.
http://map.pequenopolis.com/ |
Originally Posted by DenverBrian
(Post 7534380)
One word: pontoons.
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Originally Posted by Yaatri
(Post 7536581)
If you just walk into the hole, you will not come out, even if you ignore air resistence, terminal velocity and any kind of friction or drag.
MisterNice |
Originally Posted by MisterNice
(Post 7536647)
Really? I think not.
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My address
I find Google maps works most of the time, except whan mapping my own home. It can't find the location. I can find the street manually, and other mapping tools find it with ease. Any ideas? Can you add locations to google maps so it finds it next time?
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Originally Posted by BLI-Flyer
(Post 7535006)
I really like this link in my Google Maps, it tells you where you'll come out if you dig a hole through the earth somewhere.
http://map.pequenopolis.com/ |
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