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Anyone seen this yet? Its only in beta so us and canada only but ***me its cool. You can zoom right in.

http://maps.google.com/

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Great, if I ever decide to visit the States.....

Wonder if they'll bother with a UK version?

Nice find :tu:

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I used that yesterday, its great, I just wish they'd do one for the UK too.

Anyone know the zipcode of one of their land marks?

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Try zooming on the Satellite view, that's pretty cool!
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Here's a famous one in Washington DC, can you guess what it is?

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Try looking at the Satellite view and guessing what the building is.

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now i like this , like raist says , a uk version would be good :tu:

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If you put in something to search on it actually returns business adresses and all of their contact details down the right hand side, try Microsoft for example

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Zip code seems a little flaky...here's a few locations to search on for you....

Type Zeeks Pizza Seattle, click on the one that's on Denny Street, zoom right in and switch to satellite view....there's a wonderul shot of the Space Needle. Also zoom out a bit for a terrific shot of the boats on the Puget Sound.

Over on the other coast... if you feel like gawping at the building site of the new twin towers, search on World Trade Center New York, select the Marriott WTC link and the WTC site is below.

From there scroll up the Island....see how big Central Park really is compared to the rest of Manhattan.

Just level with where Central Park starts, at the bottom left....scroll to the left towards NJ....then once you reach the river scroll down the coast about half a dozen quays....zoom right in and there's the USS Enterprise Aircraft Carrier.

If you want to see the Empire State Building....the quickest way I found it was to search for Empire Fifth Avenue....select the first company that comes up on the list then the ESB is just next door.

Hours of fun....great quality images too.

EDIT: Search on JFK Airport and zoom in to 70%...the size of that place!! Cool cloud in the way of the photo too!

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The images really are stunning, wonder if I can find Niagara falls?

Found it, see attached

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Disney is kinda fun to look at too. As is the Hawaiin coastline.

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Anyone searched for area 51 yet ? hehehe

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LMAO never thought of that one..sweet.:D

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The UK is already covered here with streetmap and aerial views.

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not in anywhere near as much detail. I live round the corner from a landmark in glasgow, i'd have expected it to have been photographed, but nope.

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Yep, multimap is pants compared to American sites... the most fun I ever had was trying to get somewhere in Nottingham that I've never visited, so I printed directions from multimap. All was fine until I was about ½ mile from my destination, and multimap said to take the next left - the only problem was I was on a fly-over and the road I was supposed to take was actually underneath the one I was driving along!

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One of the reasons the US gets this kind of thing before the UK is that much GIS/map data in the US is public domain, whereas in the UK it's almost all owned by Ordnance Survey (once a publicly owned, government outfit) who don't supply any useful amount of digital mapping data either for free, or for amounts that allows in individual, inventive, software writer to develop stuff like this.

Considering that so much of the OS data over the centuries was gathered with public money, it's a disgrace that none of it is made more freely available for entrepeneurs in this country.

Once an idea has been proven in the US, then it's much simpler to justify the expenditure to obtain the reguired digital mapping data for the UK. So we find that US companies are better placed to make the most of the available data than UK innovators/companies.

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To be fair the data on Multi map must be about 5 years old as my house isn't on there. The estate is still in the throws of being built in the satellite/aerial photo but I've lived here for 5 years!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...wear/house.jpg

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Your quite right it is about 5 years old.

Can no one remember when they flew over the entire country taking photographs of everyone, all your wives sunbathing topless in the back yard etc?

The US photo's will be courtesy of the daily NSA satellite scans to see who's having an illegal drug & barbecue party.
These too will become outdated as time goes by.

Perhaps the US took their lead to do this from the UK version :D

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I knew it'd not take long: http://www.liquidgeneration.com/popt...oogle_tour.asp

:LOL:

ADULT CONTENT!!

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Just an update, Google maps now has a "Hybrid" mode where it overlays map information on the sat photo image of your search location.
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h

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Erm yes? That would be the Google UK portal to the map system as opposed to the Google .com address which is posted in Post 1. My link is a direct link to the hybrid maps that I speak of in my post :)