Almost every week there seems to be a great new application of technology on the Internet. Here are some recent examples to do with uses of an Internet wonder in its own right, Google Maps:

forest fire in Louisiana

Google Sightseeing: blog made up of photos of the Google Satellite site, with detailed aerial views of the entire continental USA. They list photos of natural wonders, famous landmarks and more. By the way, Google Satellite is an awesome feature of Google Maps which allows you to see a satellite photo of any map. Here's an example of a Google Satellite image of where I live:

satellite photo of Palo Alto (where I live) from Google Satellite - note Stanford in the lower left and San Francisco Bay in the upper right

HousingMaps: using Google maps again to provide the geographical data, this site allows you to pin point which places are for rent and for how much, and as you can see below you can click on a pin to see price and photos. The image below represents the same area as the one above.

this is the same area as the satellite map above with pins for rental housing

Yahoo Maps now also shows traffic: at least in the US, you can find a map and get a good idea of traffic conditions. You can also find information on road works and accidents.

And as a bonus check out the neighblogging map on the righthand column (towards the bottom) which maps out all the blogs in my neighborhood. There's at least one I recognize, my friend Enoch's medmusings

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