Here is a satellite photo of Charlottetown showing my house. Today is the first time I’ve ever notice any service by Google actually being slow — I presume this is because everyone else in the world is doing what I just did. Very cool.
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Once you get out of Ch’town
Once you get out of Ch’town proper, the capability to zoom in to a viewable level is not there. I just got a fuzzy image:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=483+keppoch+rd.,stratford,+pe&spn=0.011501,0.014913&t=k&hl=en
Funny, everything outside of
Funny, everything outside of Charlottetown looks like a “fuzzy image” to residents of Charlottetown too!
The maps are neat, but I’m
The maps are neat, but I’m equally, if not more, impressed by the “how to get here from there” feature. For laughs I typed in my old address in Vancouver and within minutes it gave me detailed directions for a road trip to 100 Prince Street with accompanying photos of all the intersections I’d encounter. This may breed a brand new type of travel where you pick a destination and let google choose how you’ll get there. What adventure!
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