Google Maps has added ‘Street View’ to the Jackson, Mississippi metro area.
I’ve recieved this question all too any times since I left home 5 weeks ago, so I figured that it’s best that I show you using Google Maps.
The map below is an overhead view of the city of Seattle. The area zoned-off and highlighted in pink is a small portion of our neighborhood, Queen Anne, and also includes a portion of the adjacent neighboorhoods, Lower Queen Anne, Westlake, and South Lake Union.
Circled below you can see our relation to Key Arena (where the Sonics play), the Space Needle, the floating house of Tom Hanks in Sleepless In Seattle, the location of “Seattle Grace Hospital (which actually houses our favorite sports bar and is the home of KOMO 4 News) , and of course… Meredith’s house from Grey’s Anatomy, which is in our neighborhood and about a 3 minute drive from our house.
Although it’s hard to tell from this view, we sit at the top of Queen Anne Hill. The Space Needle is at the bottom of the hill.
Google finally launched a product it should have launched a while back: Google Transit
However, after testing it the product seems to still have a few flaws. For example, to get to church via bus I must first walk through someone’s backyard and down the steep part of the hill our house sits upon in order to catch the bus I need.
It’s nice to have if you’re visiting town where you have to/should take public transportation (ie-NYC, Boston, DC) or if you are lliving in a major metropolitan area and you’re gonna go all crazy and venture into unknown territory.
It’s a good product, but not a great one.
As of Saturday before last I have been an official resident of Jasper, Alabama for 25 years (oops) 22 years.
I love this town.
Yes, it’s a little small. Yes, there are alot of trucks, rednecks, and people we refer to as “Alabama fans.”
But anyone from Jasper can tell you: we are much different than your typical “small town.”
But living in a small town has its perks… like being able to find your car on Google Maps.
Look at this map to the house in the center of the screen. My good ole Grand Am; right where I left when I went to Europe. I must assume this seeing as I always park in the front of the house so that all the 13 and 14-year-old kids in the neighborhood who only have golf carts and bikes can salivate over my low-mileage speedster.
Bite me, kid.
ROCK! If they’d only had this a couple months ago.
Take a peek at the Charles Bridge in Prague… or my Boat Hostel in Germany… or the Bear Pit in Bern, Switzerland.
Or… just take a peek at the line at the Eiffel Tower. (Lawd!)
Go at night time… the view is prettier.
I’m gonna go waster some time… Google Earth – Europe.
If you are a marketing or advertising junkie and/or a budding entrepreneur such as I, watch this video.
OR, if you simply love the search egine such as I, you will love this insight into the company that may soon run the world.
Seth Godin, a marketing expert, tells Google how they became the super-power that they are.
Alot of this is obvious to those of us who have worked in marketing. However, it’s tiny details that most of us never saw that led to Google’s success.
It is a long video… but if you work in an Ad Agency, go ahead and kill part of your workday to watch it.
Your boss will thank you.
Some articles of interest from the last few days…
Murphy’s Law is stated: “If there’s more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way.” or “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”
Things around JND have been a little slow over the last couple of days. Long-story-short: My life is a little crazy right now.
Just days before I am scheduled to depart for Europe, things around here are a little nuts. Google News isn’t being too kind either… as they are having a case of amnesia, forgetting who I am and screwing up JND’s news feed.
My passport work was somehow 3 weeks behind, and I have yet to recieve it. Tomorrow should be the day.
My laptop won’t recognize my iPod, and my iPod won’t play music.
Anyway, just so you know.
Post-Katrina images of New Orleans on Google Maps
Map showing where all the evacuees went
The federal response to Katrina was not as portrayed
Katrina Information Map
Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina
UFO’s.
You’ve probably never seen one. But you kinda wish you could, right?
Well, if little green men happen to come trouncing through your bedroom any night in the near future, please share the experience with others.
This is a pretty cool application that uses Google Maps to mark UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center.
Google is not only a handy search engine, it’s a handy life-tool as well.
Google currently has six mainstream programs available. The best part is, they are all free.
Also available: Picasa Photo Organizer, Google Talk, Google Toolbar, and Gmail Notifier.
