From a map of Dublin to … a map of the whole United States. But this one’s Google-style.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/maps.google.com\/<\/a> is yet another cool-looking application to come out of Google Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n It has a funky real-time dynamic-HTML interface that lets you interactively zoom in and out of maps, drag-scroll using the mouse, and (very cool) do location-sensitive searches.<\/p>\n For example, if I search on ‘pizza in st paul, mn’<\/a> Google will jump to the St Paul, Minnesota section of the map and then highlight all the Pizza shops on the map. I can then click on individual jobs for more details, or even get directions there.<\/p>\n Let’s hope this makes it to Ireland someday…<\/p>\n (If you’re interesting in how they implemented the slick user interface, there’s a good analysis here<\/a>. Also check out this amazing satellite map<\/a> of Switzerland, which has a similar interface, and this Java-based map of Ireland \/ Europe<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From a map of Dublin to … a map of the whole United States. But this one’s Google-style. http:\/\/maps.google.com\/ is yet another cool-looking application to come out of Google Labs. It has a funky real-time dynamic-HTML interface that lets you interactively zoom in and out of maps, drag-scroll using the mouse, and (very cool) do … Continue reading Google do it again<\/span>