Google Maps
 

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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!