Well, I was a little "anti-Google" when I started this (surprise, surprise.) I'm not a big fan of Google taking a picture of my house and posting it on the internet without my permission. Yeah, I know, I could opt out. But my husband believes in this stuff, so I err on his side. But I ask you, if this had been a government agency going around taking pictures of people's houses, and posting them in a public place, don't you think people would be up in arms? Why is it perfectly fine when a company does it?
Anyway, I've tried to use Google's mapping a bit, since I've gotten mislead a few times by MapQuest (I don't know what it is, but there directions are just plain wrong sometimes. We've gotten lost.) I have never been able to figure out the zoom out/zoom in symbols, much less how to go east, or north, or whatever. It always does what I don't want it to do.
So you won't be surprised when I tell you that my browser crashed while I was making my Google map, will you?
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At least when it crashed I didn't lose the whole thing. "Google My Maps is easy to use." Ha! After spending too many minutes trying to get the map to do what I wanted (sometimes there's an "undo" link, sometimes not), I realized that I should have tried my initial thought, "a map of my daily commute." It's easier to make a map of streets that you're very familiar with (at least, I assume it would be.) So I've only got two places marked on my map, but I really can't spend any more time on this today. I'd like to put in a picture, but the pictures must still be on the camera (they don't seem to be on our website yet.)
Let's see if the link to
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View Mike, Marianne, and Ellie go to San Francisco 2009 in a larger map'>Mike, Marianne, and Ellie go to San Francisco 2009 in a larger map'>our San Francisco trip works. I hope so! (Yeah, I know, it's not displaying correctly. But I've been messing with it for 10 minutes, and I'm fed up.)
Other maps/mashups that I found interesting: the various ZIP code maps, since we get regular questions about ZIP code boundaries (too bad the maps had disclaimers about not necessarily being accurate); the World Bank's mashup of ease of business in different countries. We have Google map things on our library websites. I'd really like to spend more time doing this - it could be fun, for creating work-related things, maps of vacations, etc. But I'll have to do this later - gotta get back to work.
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Hmmm... Well, it at least shows us in the right city. Hotel is actually at the corner of Post & Jones, and the Orpheum Theater is at the southwest end of the block with the UN plaza. I think we walked down Jones to Market to get there, but back to Powell to return, rather than walk thru the Tenderloin late at night.
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