{"id":198,"date":"2005-04-05T14:44:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T19:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=198"},"modified":"2005-04-05T14:44:44","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T19:44:44","slug":"more-from-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/05\/more-from-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"More from Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, Google had purchased Keyhole, a program that allowed you to look at satellite photos of anywhere in the U.S.  They allowed users to download it for free for a week or so and play with it.  I enjoyed it, but it wasn&#8217;t until today that I got to see what Google was going to do with Keyhole.  In their <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">Google Maps<\/a> interface, they are now allowing you to get a satellite view of any area, to zoom in and out, and to easily move East\/West\/North\/South of your original location.  Look for the option in the upper-righthand corner of the screen.  In Keyhole, it took a good long time to get a clear close up view of an area, but Google Maps moves quickly from place to place and is always clear (though you can&#8217;t zoom in quite as close as you could with Keyhole).  It&#8217;s a great move by Google, though I certainly prefer the pictures you can get on <a href=\"http:\/\/a9.com\/\">A9<\/a> (mostly just in cities right now) that give you a person&#8217;s-eye-view of a city block, which is much more convenient when you&#8217;re looking for a store or restaurant.  I&#8217;m glad the maps race is heating up.  <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\/traffic\">Yahoo<\/a> has its traffic reports, Google has its <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.google.com\/ridefinder\">Ride Finder<\/a> (which shows participating taxis and limos in the area), <a href=\"http:\/\/a9.com\/\">A9<\/a> has those great photos, and Mapquest has&#8230; ummm&#8230; NEW road signs in case you don&#8217;t know how to read &#8220;right&#8221; and &#8220;left&#8221;.  \ud83d\ude09  Well, at least we have a few good options now, and things seem to be getting better every day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, Google had purchased Keyhole, a program that allowed you to look at satellite photos of anywhere in the U.S. They allowed users to download it for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-digital-future","category-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}