Eye Candy With A Purpose
It’s Sunday again, dear readers … well at least it is again on my side of the globe. This will post on Sunday, UTC (Greenwich or Military or Zulu time if you prefer). I always try to provide something visual for Sundays and this Sunday … wow I have hit the jackpot. Batter than Katie Couric’s legs or Angelina’s tattoos.
If you are not yet a Google Maps user you should be. You may have noticed a new button on the standard www.maps.google.com interface:
Click that button and if you located near New York, Denver, San Francisco (or a few other cities being added) you will then see the standard Google Map interface with some squiggly blue lines, thus:
The blue lines indicate the areas where Google’s new “Immersive Mapping” has been done. I’ll post more on this subject as the technology is really fascinating, but for now, see if you can recognize the resulting view I got here from the little camera icon location on the map above:
Recognize it? You should, it’s the ramp up from the Lincoln Tunnel in Weehauken, the same one you have watched Tony drive up for 6.5 years of Sopranos episodes (R.I.P., Sopranos). (Us older, “real” Jerseyites know it’s Route 3 and not Route 495, but Shrub thinks he can rename everything just by throwing a few federal funds around)
A fantastic tool and really fun too use … enjoy.