February 8th, 2005

Game Over

Google launched a beta version of their upcoming mapping service this morning. It's positioned to be a competitor to services like MapQuest, but I don't think there will be much of a competition. It's freaking awsome. I have a meeting this morning out in Hartland. I looked up the address last night on Mapquest, and it couldn't find the specific building I'm looking for. I was able to find the general area, but Google picked it up exactly. Not only that, the maps are drawn much cleaner - less chartjunk. I think the killer feature is speed - my result came up in a blink. There's also functionality for most browsers that allows you to use the arrow ...

Posted February 8, 2005 in web, tagged .   There is 1 comment.