Google Maps Graduates 268
Anonymous writes "It appears that Google's dynamic, interactive map program, Google Maps, has finally made it out of the labs. Now it has merged with Google Local and has been updated on the homepage. Another great stride in Google's quest to conquer the internet." Graduation covered by PC Magazine. From the article: "Now, when you query Google Local (local.google.com), a map pops up, displaying the many businesses and services that match you query. If you search on "Pizza in San Francisco," for instance, it displays a map of San Francisco sprinkled with red tabs pointing to various pizza parlors. It also lists each restaurant down the right side of your browser."
Ah, so awkward! (Score:4, Insightful)
- shazow
invasion of privacy (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah this is no good! (Score:5, Interesting)
Backwards (Score:2)
That's not the only way Google Maps is backwards now.
It used to be possible to get Google Maps to map an intersection and show you exactly where it is. This functionality no longer works reliably. Instead, it wants to show local businesses all over the area in the general vicinity of the intersection, but good luck getting it to actually show the intersection!
Re:Think of us Vermonters! (Score:2)
Am I the only one... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Am I the only one... (Score:2)
Re:Am I the only one... (Score:2)
Now to fill its spot in the labs (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Now to fill its spot in the labs (Score:4, Interesting)
http://moon.google.com/ [google.com]
Not a planet (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not a planet (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Now to fill its spot in the labs (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Now to fill its spot in the labs (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Now to fill its spot in the labs (Score:2)
Now there are 2 very good reasons why thats totaly false.
number 1. Google Moon isnt done till they map ALL of it. that effort is while a step forward, a poor one and the cheese joke was sub par by google standards.
Numnber 2 i said planets, Planets first, moons second, and before we get bogged into the whats a planet discussion as well. I mean i want the Flyby maps of Mercury, the Radar Telemetry of the surface of Venus, i want the Uberfacny maps nasa keep making of mars now they have like a
Re:Now to fill its spot in the labs (Score:2)
Yes, specials. (Score:3, Insightful)
Graduate my ass! (Maybe from a USAian HS). (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Graduate my ass! (Maybe from a USAian HS). (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes, specials. (Score:2)
Re:Yes, specials. (Score:3, Insightful)
Obviously, Google thinks so. What makes you think that Google has some obligation to provide a service for whatever part of the world you live in? Google is a company. They will roll out services when it makes business sense to them.
Re:Now to fill its spot in the labs (Score:2)
Saying "Pizza Hut" and "Specials" in the same sentence is like saying "President Bush" and "Well Spoken" in the same sentence. Does not compute!
But in all seriousness, I completely agree with this, aggregating information and displaying it this way is where this product needs to go.
-s
Bail Bonds (Score:2, Interesting)
Thankfully I wasn't in jail and looking for one at that time.
Re:Bail Bonds (Score:2)
Thankfully I wasn't in jail and looking for one at that time.
I'm guessing that internet access for prisoners is not a high priority at the local lockup.
CONQUERING? (Score:4, Insightful)
by "conquering" the web, does he mean "filling it with useful applications and tools for public use"?
?
msn local search (Score:2)
Re:CONQUERING? (Score:3, Informative)
Probably, that's what the Romans did when they conquered.
People still use their roads and aqueducts two thousand years later! I'd call that usefull.
I want my Google Earth! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I want my Google Earth! (Score:2)
Don't know about MacOS though.
Re:I want my Google Earth! (Score:2)
Re:I want my Google Earth! (Score:5, Interesting)
Funny, that the Google Earth Server [google.com] runs SuSE Linux, but the clients are still Windows only.
Comment + Google Earth games (Score:2)
Meanwhile we wait, three games involving Google Earth, Earth Contest [googleearthgame.com], GoogleEarthing [googleearthing.com] and GEwar [googleearthhacks.com]. (plug) Taken from the new slashgisrs.org [slashgisrs.org], which can be of interest to you if you're interested with Google Local/Earth and anything GIS+RS. (/plug) Cheers
Re:I want my Google Earth! (Score:2)
Google Earth works fine in MS VirtualPC, using the OpenGL software compatibility mode. It's a little bit less snappy, but definately usable.
I see no reason why it shouldn't work in VMware WorkStation, which is available for Linux. Also, earlier versions of VirtualPC are available for MacOS.
Get the 30 day trial of VMware Workstation, and give it a try!
Marc
Google Earth for Linux - almost exists (Score:2, Informative)
so there's a Linux version for Mono underway that I'm told
mostly works already (it's mostly a reimplementation using the
same data).
More info and pretty screenshot in Miguel de Icaza's blog:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2005/Sep-30-1.htm
pizza parlours (Score:2, Insightful)
What other parlours are there?
Beauty Parlours.
What else?
Why is a burger joint not a Hambuger parlour?
Re:pizza parlours (Score:2)
Re:pizza parlours (Score:2)
strip clubs in [Mytown]
I was gonna search for "whore houses" but I didn't think that would return any results because [Mytown] is not in Nevada.
Re:pizza parlours (Score:2)
Re:pizza parlours (Score:5, Interesting)
Basically it describes the type of atmosphere. It has fallen out of favor in the United States and thus tends to indicate a slightly anachronistic feel (much like pub, tavern and diner). Like the word diner (used as a type of restaurant, not the original meaning of a railroad deployed diner), the phrase "parlor" tends to have a 50s feel and new places with either parlor or diner in their name tend toward an American Graffiti idealized view of the 50s.
--
Evan
Re:pizza parlours (Score:2)
Found some cool clubs (Score:3, Funny)
Searches like this [google.com] would have been SO much easier.
Planning a night out with the sales staff would have been a snap.
Now all they need is a button to plot a course from your home, to the chain of clubs for the night on the town.
Of course if this one [google.com] were to actually work, dating in my "Sowing my Wild Oats" days would have been just as easy.
Again, the ability to map a course would be useful.
Google, all you need to be a 21st century digital player.
Re:Found some cool clubs (Score:2)
Re:Found some cool clubs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Found some cool clubs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:pizza parlours (Score:2)
Because 'hamburger parlour' doesn't alliterate.
Re:pizza parlours (Score:2)
Re:pizza parlours (Score:2)
I'm on
What I don't have is a solvent chequing account.
If I input pr0n and Washington DC (Score:5, Funny)
This is so useful (Score:2, Funny)
Conquering? (Score:3, Insightful)
No API changes though... (Score:4, Informative)
Long may that continue...
Re:No API changes though... (Score:2, Redundant)
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ [google.com]
Google retains the right to put advertising on the map in the future.
Maps API is till in beta though (Score:3, Informative)
All around the world (Score:2)
Living down in South America makes the tool a nice toy but with not so big "real life" utility as it have for fully covered cities (and is really nice what can be reached when you have fully covered your city, a nice example is i.e. Vivirama [vivirama.com] for the housing market in barcelona)
This thing is awesome man!! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:This thing is awesome man!! (Score:2)
Re:This thing is awesome man!! (Score:2)
But...as was already noted, this would be a tunnel under the river. Welcome to New York everyone.
Everything Bad Is In Kansas!!! (Score:5, Funny)
See all that money spent on Intel work and all we really need to do to track down all the badness in the world is use Google maps.
Re:Everything Bad Is In Kansas!!! (Score:2)
It would seem that their algorithm for determining the search area limits it to some maximum radius around the center of the map, even if that radius is much smaller than the displayed area.
And so, all searches lead to Kansas.
Which rocks for those of us who live there.
Re:Everything Bad Is In Kansas!!! (Score:2)
FlashEarth, based on Google Maps! (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:FlashEarth, based on Google Maps! (Score:2)
Katrina coverage (Score:2, Interesting)
one word for you (Score:5, Funny)
Plastics!
Re:one word for you (Score:2)
Re:one word for you (Score:3, Informative)
Still missing... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Still missing... (Score:3, Insightful)
OMG! put it back to left! (Score:2, Interesting)
I second that! (Score:2)
Still needs work (Score:5, Interesting)
*) Better routes. MapQuest still tends to provide better driving directions. They need to tune it better to select the best route.
*) Newer images. The satellite imagery is about 5 years old in my area, and others are older and lower resolution. They need a consistent plan to update the images.
*) Multiple-stop routes. I want to be able to plan a route that goes from point A to point B to point C. Similarly, I want to be able to look at the route from A to B and force it to take an alternate path. So just how much longer is that senic route?
Re:Still needs work (Score:2)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=saskatoon,+SK&ll=52. 153477,-106.635307&spn=0.005384,0.006972&t=k&hl=en [google.com]
They used to have poor resolution shots of the city, so I'm happy that they updated to something that you can zoom in on, but they really need to line up the images. I also have friends who have found images being miles out of place in some of the rural areas, or some things showing up in the right place, but also again a mile or two away. Some strang
Re:Still needs work (Score:2)
What, you've never been there?
Re:Still needs work (Score:2)
Re:Still needs work (Score:2)
*) Find locations by popular name, rather than requiring exact addresses. I still find
Re:Still needs work (Score:2)
Thats really quite new. Higher res would be nice but 5 year old satellite images should be quite accurate.
Re:Still needs work (Score:2)
Do they take corrections? (Score:2)
Still obsessed with US highway numbers (Score:4, Interesting)
Almost everywhere, the interstate highway designations should take priority over the US highway designations. I've reported this as a bug, but I've seen no response.
Re: (Score:2)
Re:Still obsessed with US highway numbers (Score:2)
Restuarants in Vermont (Score:2)
[Go up] [Go right] [Go down] [Go left] [Return to the last result]
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[Drag to zoom]
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Did you mean:
restaurants near Vermont Close, Enfield, Greater London, EN2, UK
restaurants near Vermont Road, Croydon, Greater London, SE19, UK
restaurants near Vermont Road, Wandsworth, Greater London, SW18, UK
restaurants near Vermont Woods, Finchampstead, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40,
Re:Restuarants in Vermont (Score:2)
"Did you mean: restaurants near Vermont Close, Enfield, Greater London, EN2, UK...."
Well, obviously Google Maps is aware that in the UK, they spell it "restuarant," not "restaurant."
Actually, it's because the Google Maps search is based on city and/or neighborhood, not state. Try Killington, Montpelier, Burlington, or some other municipality in Vermont and you'll get much better results.
Broken in Konq? (Score:2)
If they're conquering (Score:2)
Watching Google Maps Snowball (Score:2, Informative)
I've been following the evolution of Google Maps for a while now. You can tell it's a killer app when people begin developing more applications around it and using it in ways the original developer never guessed.
Here are some of my favorite Google Map apps :
My recent favorite: Live streaming New York traffic cams [alkemis.com] integrated with Google Maps.
Track your GPS enabled vehicle live.
Use Craigslist home listings with Google Maps [paulrademacher.com] Cheap, plentiful phone cams with GPS flooding the market have spa
Total crap... (Score:3, Funny)
Your search for pub near Dublin Ireland did not match any locations.
Damm? that was in the labs? (Score:2)
Kudos google another job well done.
Google Maps seems to be very confused! (Score:2)
Using the zip code for my hometown.
I was presented with a map of my hometown. There was, however, a push pin on Main St for a restuarant located in an adjacent town (with an entirely different zip code).
Re:Google Maps seems to be very confused! (Score:2)
GOOGLE HAS SPOKEN!
Google now indexing graduates! (Score:2)
Further confused when I scan read the summary as "Another great stride in Google's quest to conquer the internet; graduation."
It's only a matter of time.
Credit Deficiency (Score:2)
They need to read up on more phonebooks, 'cuase that is how I found a better place. Go back to Beta, you're not finished!
faster printing too (Score:2)
The nice thing is about web-shipped software is that the user did not have to re-download the improved maps.
Search can be hilarious (Score:2)
What about the rest of the world? (Score:2)
Re:What about the rest of the world? (Score:2)
Because you are saying that an American company should not release any software unless the whole world is mapped?
That's alot of data and alot of time needed to collect it all.
I can't believe you want no one to have Google local because you don't have it.
Looking for Strip Clubs (Score:2)
That last one might b
Re:Uncertain Future of Google Maps API (Score:2)
What other huge commercial organization has done something similar to this? I would say that it's very unlikely that Google will cut off this source of development help.
Check
API hasn't changed. (Score:2)
-everphilski-
Re:Hate to admit it.. (Score:2)
My issues with Virtual Earth though, are:
1. At least in Firefox on my machine, many satellite/map tiles fail to load. That's very annoying. Grab/dragging the map helps with some but not all of the tiles.
2. The satellite images and street maps don't line up nicely. Way worse than Google's, at least in the areas I've browsed.