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January 28, 2006
Google Maps Rocks
For those of you who are in college or the stone age (is there a difference?) and have not checked out Google Maps, you need to. After the novelty of seeing your house on satellite imagery with streetmap overlay wears off, you can start looking into the cool stuff.
So far, the stuff just keeps getting cooler.
For Denverites, check out Alkemis-Denver. Try Alkemis-DC if you're in the DC area. These sites pull up a google map of the area with "tacks" placed in key locations. Some of the tacks link you to a live traffic camera at the intersection and some give you traffic info like "one lane closed Kalamath Ave." There is also a sidebar with links to other things like local live police scanner, random local picks from www.flickr.com and other stuff.
All this with no pop-ups--it's pretty neat.
I think I need to switch departments and get into OSINT. It'll be much more lucrative in the futre, I think, and certainily more fun.
Posted by james at January 28, 2006 10:34 AM