Thursday, July 19, 2007

Man or God like ?

Most of us sitting in front of our LCD screens squinting through web pages and clicking every link that comes across which looks or sounds a bit interesting. But do we actually ruminate about things which we really admire ? No is the ans ! Well some people do actually ponder on those things but satiate themselves by some or the other excuses bcuz of the lack of time.

I bumped into this Google Maps where I was trying to locate a route to some place in Delhi. Google has done a slick job of getting every street and every road on there maps. But what is the most jaw dropping thing about Google Maps is that Google people have added another view apart from the existing Maps, Satellite and Hybrid.




This is the Map view of AIIMS in Delhi.



This is the Satellite view of AIIMS.



This is the Hybrid view of AIIMS.


And another view added which is just presently for some parts in US is a street view which is absolutely an eye candy. Not just for the pretty looks, its actually very helpfull. Have a look ! The video shows the street view of Columbia University.



I really have no idea when this street view will come for Indian places and i wonder how will they manage to get a street view of Gautam Nagar in Delhi which has like 500 streets in 1km square area. One heck of a jog aye ;) But am sure some one ( not like us ) will have the courage to prove me wrong in future!

1 comments:

Karan said...

haha, you have no idea how much time I have spent just going all over the world with Google Maps (not Google Earth) and just exploring. It's incredible amounts of fun especially because Google seamlessly changes languages and so maps of China are in Chinese and maps of Thailand are in Thai.