better than mapquest

[HatchetMan]

http://maps.google.com

[Bodyslide]

That's Kewl...

[HatchetMan]

Did ya check it out with the satellite?

[adam]

I like the click and drag feature. I don't know why mapquest and yahoo don't have that. You have to hit arrow buttons and hope it moves in the right increments, as it totally redownloads the image.

Unfortunately I think this will give a false impression to some of our geographically challenged teenagers that if you travel by sea either east or west from the US, you just return to the US. It would have been funnier if they just had one of those "under construction" signs floating in the ocean for the other continents.

[glockjs]

yeah ive used it a few times. its way better. doesnt take a half hour to load a page

[adam]

Holy crap I just tried the satelite. That is cool. Let's get the Middle East on there so we can all search for Bin Laden.

[Bodyslide]

Yeah, the Satellite was the first thing I tried...

[jackal70058]

That is nice. I do like the satellite feature, the LouisianaMAP website already has that, though.

[AlecWest]

I think it's pretty neat. But, I'm a bit disheartened. I heard about it this morning on the radio ... and the announcer described it as being akin to the zoom-in feature from the film "Men In Black" ... where "K" zoomed in on his girlfriend's house. But, it doesn't get zoomed in quite that close (at least not yet). The announcer also said the images provided are a year old ... so they're nowhere close to real-time (at least not yet).

Now ... when Google can do near-real-time full-motion video zoom-ins, that will be neat.