Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
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Dooods.
THIS is by far the coolest, most efficient online map service I have ever seen. No clutter, very detailed, and the damn thing has like scrolling as you move the arrows around. I LOVE IT. ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Welcome to two weeks ago. I'd like to introduce you to Last Tuesday and All Your Base. PPP-PowerBook is over by the punch getting another drink and goatse is hamming it up with the DJ.
Moving to General Discussion since this is tech stuff. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Oooo. I feel like an arse. That's what I get for using MacCentral for all my Apple news. They just posted a story this afternoon. Hadn't heard of it prior.
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Does it now work with Safari? As of last Thursday, it didn't. That would be news.
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Multi-touch Piñata
Join Date: May 2004
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Um, Brad, he said "Google maps for Safari".
That's the news today, added support for the Safari and Opera Web browsers. "Two weeks ago" was news of the service itself, without real support for Safari. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Actually, if you read that other thread, you'll see that it did work for Safari then... just not perfectly.
Heck, it's not even working perfectly in Safari right now! Dragging the Y axis is flipped, for one. edit: Scratch that... the Y axis is working properly now but wasn't earlier. Weird. I'll count that as "buggy." The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Does it have any other countries!?!?!
I hope they add that feature soon as it is cool.... Very responsive... But not much use outside the US!! |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Damn, Google is just rocking the kazbah these last couple years. Best thing since sliced bread.
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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No other countries yet. Hopefully Canada gets added in short order.
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Just to clarify, Google's officially added support for the Safari and Opera web browsers.
http://macminute.com/2005/02/28/google-maps/ It looks like parts of Canada are there... at least Toronto. Not sure how well the searching for Canada is though. |
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Man, if they combined this with all the Keyhole stuff they bought, that would be truly amazing.
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Antimatter Man
Join Date: May 2004
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BC, Alberta... looks quite comprehensive... haven't tried the search function, but the maps seem accurate. edit: the search and local search functions work for Canada... Try local searching for 'Coffee' in 'Vancouver, BC' and the lettered pins get overloaded without even touching the downtown core and its saturation of Starbucks (one intersection on Robson has a Starbucks on three of the four blocks - curiously not displayed) Trés cool. Last edited by curiousuburb : 2005-03-01 at 18:56. |
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Multi-touch Piñata
Join Date: May 2004
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I've noticed that some addresses appear on the opposite side of intersections. It's as if certain places are off by half a streetwidth. I know it's not exact down to showing buildings, but I think the general address markers should at least match up to the same block.
Like this is wrong: Sample search. It's beta. But before apologists clamor to say it's close enough, remember this is a resource people use for driving. Close enough isn't good enough for maps. Assuming I didn't discover the only flaw in the entire system on my first try, I can only assume there are other inaccuracies, so I'm curious how accurate it seems to y'all, in a beta tester kinda way. I'm sure it'll be tweaked and refined. I love it. Particularly the fonts and clean lines and vectorness. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein Last edited by johnq : 2005-03-01 at 19:04. |
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Multi-touch Piñata
Join Date: May 2004
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Whoa, how long has "Local" been up for at google? Cool...uses google maps but spits out gifs?
Google Local Says it's new... |
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Been around a while I think. ::Searches::
Yep. Been around almost a year now. http://www.clickz.com/experts/search...le.php/3329201 |
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Multi-touch Piñata
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Then why does it say "new" in red text next to it on the main www.google.com page?
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http://labs.google.com/ It hasn't been promoted very heavily, so I guess "new" in the sense of bringing it to the front page. |
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mapquest must be quaking in their boots. They'd better have something REALLY good planned if they want to stay afloat. I think their days are numbered. Good. Too many obnoxious ads anyway.
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Making sawdust
Join Date: May 2004
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i stopped using mapquest looong ago, i got tired of getting pissed at the tiny little maps they'd let you use. i love that google gives you such a large map to view, but im still gonna stick w/ Route 66.
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Hates the Infotainment
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All right... They've already improved their coverage of Canada in the last few days! Provincial borders are now depicted as well as the main trans-Canadian highways, even at a high level view.
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
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All right now I'm pissed. I can't find the Saddle dome in the Calgary coverage area, though they depict all kinds of other venues like colleges, cemetaries and some other sports place.
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Multi-touch Piñata
Join Date: May 2004
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General question: Anyone using it yet for real? How's the accuracy in your experience?
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Let's put it this way: I requested driving directions from Cupertino to my house in Illinois and the path it came up with seemed very close to ideal, based on my knowledge of the interstate system (which I've traveleld heavily in the past).
It *did* take a long time to generate those directions, even on a cable connection (maybe 90 seconds or so) but it was pretty cool nonetheless. Haven't tried any close-by directions but I'll try shortly. PS - If you do a venue search in the local area you're displaying, it will come up with all kinds of cool stuff and mark them with little pop-up balloons. ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Tried a couple local stores and restaurants. One was perfect and instantaneous, the other really screwed up (listed like 4 steps for the same stretch of road with no turns for example).
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Multi-touch Piñata
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Like try a main street where you know of a few businesses. I see an odd East-West inaccuracy but I tend to think North-South is a bit more accurate? I can't quite see a pattern, but it is odd. Close enough for nukes perhaps but not if I'm picking someone up in the rain or triple parking for food pickup. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein |
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