Maps getting richer

Google maps now offers some more interesting new features:

Google Maps now offers a 360-degree view of many streets in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami, with other cities to roll out later

The street features first became available in A9 and are now being launched by Google.  This will be a very interesting and useful feature in many applications.  It also added other features

Google also launched Mapplets, a tool that enables developers to create mini applications to be displayed on Google Maps. Developers can combine information such as real estate listings and crime data with distance measurement and other tools to create their own embeddable mashups directly on the Google Maps site.

Very interesting directions and very promising applications.

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