New Google Maps Feature!
Apr 5, 2007 | 12:20 pm
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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
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...=UTF8&z=4&om=1
Apr 5, 2007 | 2:52 pm
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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...)
Apr 5, 2007 | 4:19 pm
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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
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...=UTF8&z=4&om=1
Apr 5, 2007 | 4:31 pm
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Apr 5, 2007 | 5:53 pm
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Apr 5, 2007 | 6:03 pm
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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:
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.
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.
Apr 5, 2007 | 7:03 pm
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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/
http://map.pequenopolis.com/
Apr 6, 2007 | 4:21 am
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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/
http://map.pequenopolis.com/
Apr 6, 2007 | 4:57 am
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Apr 6, 2007 | 9:56 am
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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?
Apr 6, 2007 | 12:12 pm
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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/
http://map.pequenopolis.com/