A new urban cartography online

location based services

Ok so my head is still spinning… but I just had to comment on the latest development to Google maps which went live yesterday and which provide a “2.5D” view of some major US cities and Tokyo - I just love the simpicity of this rendering, it povides the much needed sense of place, but does not make the existing information or user generated “my-maps” content any less clear..
I’m off on vacation with the family next week in NYC so I will put this to the test…
Now how cool would it be to see the UCL London city model rendered like this !
Sometimes less is more..
Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:29 pm