Chương này là một trong những đặc biệt, bởi vì nó không phải bằng văn bản của tôi. Trong thực tế, không được viết bởi bất kỳ người nào duy nhất . thay vào đó, tôi tạo ra một wiki (một trang web bất cứ ai có thể chỉnh sửa) và cho phép cho những người viết chương này. | 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google 14. Fun With Google Maps the Wiki Way This chapter is a special one because it wasn t written by me. ỉn fact it wasn t written by any single person. instead I created a wiki a website anyone can edit and allowed for people to write this chapter. The topic was Fun With Google Maps and the result is the group-authored text that follows Google Maps Google introduced Google Maps in February 2005 to let users view maps get driving directions and search for local businesses and services. Instead of doing a multitude of things Google Maps did only one thing but it did that one good show you a near full-screen map of the US and later other parts of the world allowing you to drag and drop the map or search to get to any location. Search for pizza in chicago and a couple of red pins mark the location. Clicking on a pin reveals an info box with more details on what you can find at this location. Worldwide reach Google Maps was originally different then Google Local but they later merged together. 46 14. Fun With Google Maps the Wiki Way When it first launched Google Maps was limited to just the USA but other countries have been added to the fold with the street level mapping of the UK and Japan being uppermost. .and I give you the Earth Increasingly even the worldwide coverage of Google Maps is insufficient for some people. Google also offers a standalone program Google Earth which takes the experience to an even higher level. By offering satellite and other aerial imagery as its basis rather than the pre-drawn maps of Google Maps Google Earth has a far greater wow factor when simply browsing the world. It does however offer vector mapping as an overlay to the images and allows for new data to be added to the mix via an XML data-format called KML. Innovative sites are making use of this to offer downloads of the data into Google Earth. Mashups galore Ever wanted to find out where your taxi is in New York city or what the desert looks like from
