Where Are You? Google Knows.

Google has another beta service for us. Actually it's been around for a little while now but it just took me some time to get around to writing it up here. The site is called Google Maps. It allows you to access street maps, magnify them, scroll them and more. You can even get satellite images of the area you are viewing. You don't need an address. You can search for locations the way you perform a general Google search. I've looked at the satellite images but they don't seem to have a time/date stamp on them. So it may be a little difficult to determine the currency of the image.


Once you've looked at your house, your place of work, and some friends and relatives, you might want to load Google Earth Beta. "Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more." The download is free. There are also deluxe versions available for a fee.