{"id":2636,"date":"2005-02-08T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T18:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/02\/08\/2636.html"},"modified":"2005-02-08T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T18:37:38","slug":"maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/02\/08\/maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw an internal demo of this a couple weeks ago, and I've been biting my tongue to avoid talking about it ever since, but now it's publicly available: the beta version of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">Google Maps<\/a>.  (It's provided as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.google.com\/\">Google Labs<\/a>, the \"technology playground\" where new tech sometimes gets posted before it's fully integrated into the main Google page.)<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it doesn't work in Safari yet (though they're working on that), nor in several other browsers.  But it does work in Firefox and Mozilla and Netscape on all platforms, and in IE\/Windows.  And I adore it.  The maps are so clear and so pretty!  And they load so fast!  And you can drag them around in the window to view different parts of them!<\/p>\n<p>Probably not as complete or as feature-rich as some of the established map sites, but this is just a beta.  And it's already my second-favorite Google feature, after the main search engine itself.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you want to give someone a link to the map of a particular location, you can click a link on the page and it'll provide you with a simple human-readable URL.<\/p>\n<p>If you have comments, whether praise or complaints, I'm sure the team would love to hear from you; just click the Send Feedback link.<\/p>\n<p>Note: This is probably obvious, but it can't hurt to explicitly mention that I'm not speaking for the company in any way.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw an internal demo of this a couple weeks ago, and I&#8217;ve been biting my tongue to avoid talking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}