{"id":108,"date":"2005-02-08T11:18:21","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T16:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=108"},"modified":"2005-02-08T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T16:19:07","slug":"google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/02\/08\/google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google maps!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google<\/a> officially can do everything <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo!<\/a> can do, and do it better!<\/p>\n<p>\tGoogle just launched a beta of it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">Google Maps<\/a> site.  You can drag around the map with your mouse!  No more clicking on stupid arrows to find out what you&#8217;re looking for isn&#8217;t over there.  You&#8217;ll also notice in the image below that Markham appears before St.Catharines does, must be the 200+ population in the &#8216;town&#8217; of Markham versus the 60+ in St. Catharines.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/GoogleMap2.gif\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Google Map\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\tOnly time will tell what it&#8217;s results are like, but here&#8217;s hoping.<\/p>\n<p>\tLike always, I learnt this <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/02\/08\/0926214\">from Slashdot<\/a>, but what I really wanted to share is <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=138699&#038;cid=11605396\">this person&#8217;s post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Re:Google will never stop&#8230; (Score:5, Funny)<br \/>\nby Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 08, @08:07 (#11605396)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thats nothing. Try this on for size:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> I don&#8217;t know how long it will be before someone at MSN notices that a whole lot of people are interested in this trip; this has appeared on many newsgroups already.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li> http:\/\/mappoint.msn.com\/DirectionsFind.aspx<\/li>\n<li> Plan a trip from Haugesund, Norway to Trondheim, Norway<\/li>\n<li> Laugh <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I followed his instructions for you:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/FixMPSvc.aspx.gif\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Crzy MSN Map\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now Google officially can do everything Yahoo! can do, and do it better! Google just launched a beta of it&#8217;s Google Maps site. You can drag around the map with your mouse! No more clicking on stupid arrows to find out what you&#8217;re looking for isn&#8217;t over there. You&#8217;ll also notice in the image below&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/02\/08\/google-maps\/\">Continue Reading<span> Google maps!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}