View Bullitt – The Greatest Car Chase in a larger mapThere used to be a video from one of film’s greatest car chases in Bullitt, linked with Google Maps, so you knew where to play Bullitt when you’re in San Francisco but the geo-broadcasting platform, Seero.com seems to have bought the farm.
Google Maps Street Level Views
Google Maps has a new feature in some large US cities – street level views using photographs that show 360 degree views.
This is the view of Yuet Lee, one of my favorite restaurants in San Francisco at the corner of Broadway and Stockton.
Here’s a picture of where I used to live in New York – the building with the green awning.
I guess pretty soon they’ll be looking inside our rooms.
Google Maps – Go Swimming
When you get driving directions via Google Maps (from the US to Europe), steps now include swimming across the Atlantic to reach your destination. Look at step 23 in the driving directions from New York to Paris.
Fly Over Your Hometown
This is a a Flash 8.0 Google Maps flight simulator by Mark Caswell-Daniels: http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html
Google Maps Sea Level Rise Mapper
Watch global warming in action! Google maps plus an elevation overlay from NASA data, and a box where you can enter the sea level rise in meters.
I think our house is good to 35 meters.