Google Maps: Don't miss the satellite photos feature
By now, most have discovered Google Maps (maps.google.com), with their many cool features. One new one that some have seemed to miss is the satellite photo feature. On the top right of a page showing a map, note the "satellite" link. Take that, and the map will change to an aerial photo view of your chosen location (sometimes there is a limit to how close the photos will zoom).
Just as with regular maps, the aerial photo interface uses the same powerful pan, drag, and zoom capabilities (by mouse or keyboard), so you can literally get the feel of traveling over a landscape in a hot air baloon, to a degree.
The aerial photo feature is something I've looked forward to since the release of Google maps. Some may know about the Keyhole project which I first noticed on the Google Labs site, if I recall. Keyhole's photos go to even greater zoom levels, so perhaps we'll see more features released in the future. Still, even if not, this is an awesome feature for Google to have released. Don't miss it!
Without a doubt it is seriously cool. I have made a few deep links to this
in another blog i maintain http://compiledby.spikesource.com. Sadly though
the maps isn't as a good as Mapquest or Yahoo. We are here in Florida and
it doesn't know where SeaWorld is, but Yahoo and MapQuest do; Google had us
going off on the wrong direction. Finding that Google made a mistake, we
put in some other test places, and it failed to get all of them 100%
correct. So still a lot of testing to be done by them. Very cool though;
i love UI to it.
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