Google Maps Runs In Circles, Invaded From Space
Some funny Google Maps sightings in the last day or so:
First off, a bug in the directions system in Google Maps sent drivers into a tail-spin, with Google instructing them to make well over 200 u-turns. Yikes!
A screenshot of the first 28 steps in the process, courtesy of Kandarp:
Don’t worry, Google’s already fixed it, but I heard there was a major traffic incident in New Jersey yesterday involving 8,500 dizzy drivers. Just kidding, but I’m glad Google isn’t doing GPS car navigation just yet.
In the other story, participants to Foo Camp last fall were told by Google’s Chris DiBona that Google would be doing a flyover, and invited them to make large decorations that would be seen in Google Maps and Google Earth. Those involved made a giant Space Invaders tribute, as well as a “Cylon raider” from Battlestar Galactica (geeks forever!), as well as lying down on the ground and waving at the camer.
The imagery should go live on Google Maps/Earth next month, but Chris gave Tom Coates this image showing what it will look like in the end:
(click to view full-size in Flickr)
You can also sorta view it in Google Maps now, thanks to an overlay by GEarthBlog, which coincidentally helps let you know where the imagery will appear eventually (just un-check the check box sometime mid-February).
(via Boing Boing)
This gives me flashbacks of MapPoint.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001810.html
Perhaps this is just a clever ploy from the Dutch government, to receive more money from tourism! :-O
Comment by Tim | February 9, 2007