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Bird view
April 15, 2005
Posted by Michael Krantz, Google Blog team
Okay, we know we're always saying that this product and that product are cool, but seriously:
Google Maps
are cool. And in the few weeks since we added
Keyhole
satellite imagery, we've enjoyed watching netizens inventing ingenious ways to play with Maps, and thought we'd share a few of our favorites.
We'll begin with a sampling of our favorite views. The
Photoshopped White House roof
is soooo last week, but the
airplane graveyard
may never get old. We're impressed by
Dave's work
-- but even more so by
Luecke's
. And of course, people are always finding a few
surprises
.
But the real jewels are the various Google Maps collections. This is
a nice aggregation
of views, and the
Google Sightseeing blog
might eventually be even better. This guy's
marriage of Google Maps and Craig's List real estate ads
had our engineers saying "Wow." Speaking of engineers, our own Nelson Minar came up with
this visualization
of where people did the most Maps searching on April 6th. And on the high art front, the
Memory Mappers
are creating nothing less than a new literary form. Cool.
P.S. Go
Sox
!
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