Google Map Search

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Google continues it's attempt at World domination by launching a map search.

Google Maps

It's only in the beta stage, but as with everything Google does, it can only get better.

Pretty funky, from what I could tell it's got everywhere in America and Canada. I checked a few streets I know and could find them within a minute or so. Pretty awesome. Hope they expand to everywhere else in the world soon

Wow, it shows my apartment quite accurately.

Leave it to Google to come up with such inventive products. As long as it does not become another Mircosoft, I will remain a Google fan.

M.

The new mapping product is not much more than a new, robust user interface to existing data. It combines data from multiple sources of informaiton on points in North America and stops there. The reason is that much of the data sources from the USGS which is free to the public (being a government sponsored information source and all) and other such agencies are rather unsurprisingly US-centric.

Personally, i think the new service is "cool", but that it will have to evolve a bit to stay on top of browser technology and keep the cutting-edge bells & whistles from biting them in the ass in the end. Now perhaps they can see fit to merge some of this functionality with Keyhole and produce a real, free service that people actually want to use.

That sounds good to me; combining the map service with keyhole. But, that'll probably not happen... Seems Google wants keyhole to be a pay service... I don't know how well it will do, but the technology behind it I think is great.

I think that the map service is more about convenience and getting the info all in one place. Google's basically becoming an online modern-age interactive encyclopedia service. In my mind, the greatest thing about Google is the ideas and what I consider to be their forward-thinking, on how to evolve the internet into something much greater than it is... And the internet, especially the broadband connectivity, hasn't been around for that long... Imagine what will be coming in the next 10 years... Excuse me while I kiss my modem...

The problem with keyhole being a paid service is that it has no practical use. They're assuming that people will be willing to pay to play, but there are far too many interesting things to play with which don't have an additional monthly bill attached to them. I predict that Keyhole will fail as a service until the marketing director wakes up and produces a means of monetizing a free service such as this. I've already thought of one that would stand to make beaucoup bucks, but nothing doing out of Google so far.

Man, I just found a sweet shortcut in my neighborhood. Google knows all.

-HECK!

Too bad it isn't THE WORLD and not just the United States.

Canada too, I think?

Oh puhleeze, Canada is like a US sidekick. When you say US, you include Canada too.

Just kidding Sierradaddy.

M.

No you're not...

But you're right anyways...