[autodata]

yes, there are a lot of inaccuracies and some of the directions it gives me are absolutely retarded.

Anyway, for the cool stuff:

Google maps hacks
how google maps work (I don't know whhat happened to the images)

[Moogs]

Post your feedback guys. Give them the specific steps you took and what the results should be vs. what they are. These guys will take every single thing you send to them seriously and try to fix it; I can almost guarantee it. Google is a hungry company despite their incredible success.

[Ryan]

It has problems in the San Francisco Bay Area. If, say, I enter "cafe" and Benicia, CA 94510, I get restaurants that are all the way across the bridge from here, a good twenty minutes.

I can't link to it, for some reason, but anyone willing to try can do as I said above. I suppose it probably works based on how far away it is as the crow flies, not driving distance, but it'd be nice to incorporate these kinds of things, though I realize most don't have to deal with bridges all over the place.

[InactionMan]

Bump! Google maps has been updated. Now with sattelite imagery! I can see my freakin' house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Brad]

Doesn't work in Safari. Clicking the Satellite link does nahzing.

Of course, Firefox works.

[autodata]

It works nicely, but they don't have good maps of everywhere. I tried looking up the university of illinois in urbana and they only have real low-res imagery. And while they have ~1m res imagery of my town (I see people!), the images are at least two years old and, therefore, don't include a lot of the new construction in the area.

[ast3r3x]

My neighborhood

I am very near to this church, notice the poor resolution, and the limited zoom in ability :/

Show me a link of where you can see people looking at philly and new york I can only see cars.

[Brad]

Poor images just mean there isn't good satellite data for the area. Try an urban area like this.

[LudwigVan]

Funny. A quick look at Minneapolis shows a low-resolution north-south stripe down the middle of the city, with high resolution imagery on either side.

[autodata]

Originally Posted by ast3r3x Show me a link of where you can see people

here

You'll have to zoom in all the way. Note the building in the center with three sections. In the intersection to just above and to the right, you can see a dot. That's a person, maybe two people right next to one another. If you hunt around you'll see a couple more.

[ast3r3x]

Oh, I thought you meant more clearly than that, not sure why I assumed that.

Yeah, if you zoom out of places you can tell where higher quality images are. I was hoping for as good as terraserver or whatever it is used to be. They don't allow for complete zooming like they used to several years ago. There used to be a level of zoom greater than they allow now.

[johnq]

Land of the free, home of the brave...

Yet...http://www.google.com/maps?q=washing...9062&t=k&hl=en...we cower behind a mosaic.

I can see it now, 24-style: "My brothers, we need to call off the operation, there is an impenetrable dome of pixels shielding the Capitol building. We'll never see it from the air."



Now, altering the details of the tops of important buildings I feel is valid, for security, but to obscure the whole area is silly. It's not like those that are serious can't gather the info some other way.

[autodata]

They don't do the imagery themselves. John Young has been talking about USGS blurring those sites since they started some time ago. See his eyeball series and the UnEyeballing the US Seats of Power page

[Quagmire]

Originally Posted by Brad Doesn't work in Safari. Clicking the Satellite link does nahzing. Of course, Firefox works.

Works for me in Safari! It missed my house by one. But, your eyes are unworthy to see my 8 acre estate!

[johnq]

The best part about Google Maps/Sat is that the bigger you make the window, the more it will show.

Wanna see this puppy on a dual 30" setup with a Safari window stretching across both...