Holy Maps!, check this out Options

[brer]

Google Maps


type in someplace, willow springs international raceway for example.

or your home address. then zoom all the way in.

Freaky.

Or Iraq.

Or LAX

Or Burning Man

Or Nurenburgring

Or Stuttgart

Its freaking cooooooooooool.


correction, its only US here.

heres the article

wired article

This post has been edited by brer: Apr 13 2005, 10:42 PM

[lapuwali]

QUOTE (indydad @ Apr 14 2005, 10:47 AM)

The privacy rights people are going nuts over this and homeland defense is not happy. I've heard this may come down. Not probable, but I deal with aerial photography and electronic data distribution in my job and there are forces out there to make everything available and some to restrict alot of stuff. This is a developing technology. Cool though, huh? Old Dad INDY

It's not just Google, as pointed out previously. Mapquest and Microsoft also have their own versions. Microsoft's version has been out for years, and uses publicly available USGS images. If Homeland Security is worried about this, they'll need to shut down the USGS, or substantially restrict what it publishes. Even that won't stop it, as there are non-US firms providing this stuff, too. SpotImage, in France, has been provided these images for quite some time now, and are hardly subject to US governmental control.