Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Fun from the sky
Everyone's talking about the new feature on Google Maps that lets you zoom in on the world's geography from satellite photos. Depending on the place you're looking, the satellite images can be very detailed (good detail in Miami and other major U.S. cities; not so good in rural or smalltown areas; some places, like the White House and Kennebunkport, are blurred for security reasons). For an example, here's the area around the Miami Herald building in downtown Miami. Use the scroll bar and arrows to move in and out/around, neat features of this site.
I hadn't linked to this earlier since everyone else is, and besides, there have been several services, from Mapquest to Miami-Dade County's My Home that can show you good aerial images, around for awhile. But people are having lots of fun with this one, and are sharing what they found with others: here's a Google Sightseeing blog that posts lots of fun images from Google Maps. Sheila Lennon at the Providence Journal's site also found lots of fun stuff using the maps. posted by liz at 7:26 PM
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.
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