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Has been upgraded to include the same fly-around interface that google earth uses. It's about time.

I think I'm missing something. How? :confused:

Same here. Do you have to have Google Earth already installed? I do see that they moved the search options from text links to the right of the search box to text tab below the search box.

i'm not seeing it either. :(

Interesting.

Perhaps you have to have Google Earth installed, which you should it's wayyyy cool.

When I pull up a google map (maps.google.com) I can zoom in and out with the scroll wheel, click and scoot to anywhere on the planet and zoom back in. It did not do that last week....

Oh, I was expecting a 3-D presentation of locales accessible through the standard map. Click and drag has been around for a while. I though the scroll wheel zoom had been as well.

Double-click zoom in/out is a good addition but I don't expect I'll use it much as I usually want to go way in or way out so I'll still use the slider. The context map in the lower right is nice but only saves me a half step of zooming all the way out to center on the area desired.

Many bonus points to Google though for keeping it very fast.

The basic clicky-draggie interface has been around since the start, but this ain't that. I get a red targeting bracket that's new, also the ability to zoom out to planet scale rotate over to Spain and zoom back in is new, at least to google maps.

I don't have a red target bracket. And zooming out moving to Europe and zooming back in is at least three weeks old because I did it recently when looking for places 863 miles from London.

Unless you're talking about something completely new that I can't see that comes with the red target bracket.

Though I do love that the scale measure adjusts for latitude. Not sure if it did that before.

I got it just fine. Didn't know it was there. Very Cool! Thanks!

I did finally figure this out - you use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out. The red target bracket doesn't show until you start scrolling. Hope this helps, Alex.

It's cool by me but I'm using a lame touchpad scroll these days and it's too sensitive for that.

Nope. I can move in and out with the scroll button but I don't get any brackets. Do they do anything?

They don't "do" anything, purely informative. When you zoom with the scroll wheel, it zooms centered on wherever your mouse is pointing (as opposed to using the graphic scroll bar or the keyboard, which zooms centered on the current view). The brackets just appear while it's scrolling to identify where the new center will be once the scrolling's done.

Ok good. Then I can live with not knowing why I'm not seeing them.

It all balances out. A guy on a linguistics blog I read was bitching that Bengali script does not render properly for him in Firefox but it does for me.

So I get Bengali but not Google Maps brackets.