April 19, 2005
Google Maps UK
Tom Smith found Google Maps UK. At last! If only I was in the UK; I'd be jumping for joy right now. All the hacking of the US service means there's plenty of ways to annotate the maps produced, and even link up data feeds from other services.
Best thing is, Google Local, and Google SMS now work in the UK too.
A few nitpicks - the postcode db, or georeferencer, isn't completely accurate:
The timings on the directions appear to indicate freeway speed driving around most of London. No doubt it will be tweaked in the future. Comes from building on the same engine as the US maps, I guess - it gives a rather strange view of the world:
(thanks to 2lmc for some of the links)
UPDATE: Not only goes Google Local work, but Google Local Mobile - and specifically the version rolled out in the US shows the maps of Britain too, on your mobile.
yes, I am wearing a red t-shirt today)
The maps aren't really up to snuff - cartography for small screens is entirely different to even the small amount of map you can show in a browser. And I repeat my rant that there aren't any scales, anywhere. Someone want to work out what each zoom level is comparable to?
Anyway, fire up http://www.google.com/xhtml?site=local in your mobile's web browser to try it out.
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Comments
Try CM3 4HT - I didn't know we lived in Braintree!
Posted by: Dodopappa at April 19, 2005 03:12 PM
And bring on the satellite imagery!
Posted by: Timo at April 19, 2005 04:04 PM
used lots of map sites with my job this is probably the best and easy to use, however please try to put the motorway juction numbers on the directions, and the directions are so detailed on roundabouts (ie travel 0.0Mi etc) they are sometimes difficult to follow. But the ability to drag the window over the map is very good. Thanx to Steve Wright show radio 2 web site of the day for the tip.
Posted by: Trevor at April 28, 2005 11:33 PM
