I can almost see my house from here
Google Maps now covers the whole world. Though without street-level details, or precise satellite imagery. But it’s a nudge (a big nudge at that) in the correct direction.
Archive for the ‘maps’ Category.
Sightseeing via web, part n
Traipsing through the poisonbit-infested wilderness:
Best of Hubble.
Google sightseeing has its own domain now.
No end to maps
Well, UK is now covered by maps.google.com. The detail level is not up to the US/Canadian one, but it’s still good. And the tube-signs in London are a nice touch (even though they’re not listing the disused stations).
And Seppo pointed out, to ease people’s discoveries on the merkin maps, there’s a nifty site called Google Sightseeing that lists locations someone has deemed interesting.
Meaningless links, part foo
Nabbed from various places:
- Graveyard of airplanes in Davis Monthan air force base in Arizona rendered via good old maps.google.
- The webcammed home of a flying squirrel.
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Ferners go for Skynyrd’s Free Bird, the
finnish variant is to request Sabbath’s Paranoid. The following study is sadly cut off around 2001, but the practice is still ongoing. And yeah, the existence of either, let alone both of these, in wikipedia does not cease to amaze…
