Comments on: Two questions for Google Maps

By: madame l

madame l — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:13:35 +0000

yeah, there’s already a site that uses google maps to “pin-point” the dwellings of sex offenders. and another i noticed that just points to lousy neighbours. “meth house, noise all the time, driving on the lawn”, etc.

but i guess these are “private” maps. i will have to try and place a marker on the public one and see how far i can push it.

unfortunately, or fortunately, here in the french countryside the satellite maps only get so close… nothing near the detail of the maps of where i grew up, in new england. and certainly no “street views”, that i know of.

By: Andrew Jankowich

Andrew Jankowich — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:08:34 +0000

Boston is using Google Maps to plan bike routes by looking at popular streets for biking as used by cyclists and to rate streets for bike friendliness: http://www.streetsblog.org/200.....etwork-20/

By: Shay Fodor

Shay Fodor — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:28:11 +0000

Another example of “private” use of Google Maps could be found here. This is Marge Simpson map of the places The Simpons visited in their episodes:

http://www.triptouch.com/user/.....pson/trips

By: gianluca_b

gianluca_b — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:28:13 +0000

seams like the answers are already in your comments : )

there s just no way to control
we mess up everything all the time
isn t it ?

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:08:26 +0000

The link should have been blog about running our bed and breakfast -- sorry no way to edit a posted comment. Love your blog by the way.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:06:39 +0000

I created a google map for my bed and breakfast and some places in the El Yunque rainforest of interest. I did it after I tried to get my business listed the official way and Google placed me in the center of the nearest town instead of up in the rainforest where we actually are. Later we had guests who worked for Google (really interesting scientists) and they promised to fix our map location (someone called me from Google but so far if you search for "rainforestinn" it still puts me in town so I don't know. Anyway I think the feature of placing your own markers is great and I'm glad Google (like wikipedia) is trusting enough to allow it. My place marker has more than 300 hits so far: Rainforestinn's Google Earth Location PS: I found your blog because I blog about my bed and breakfast ( ) and you come up in a search for bed and breakfast blogs right near the top.

By: Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:31:46 +0000

Back in August 2007, I created a map with place markers in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of my grandfather’s birth to share with family.

This was using the “My Maps” feature. A more “private” use of the tool.