Google Maps - Not only a Website nor only a Service - It's also Developer Platform.

I'm in the US doing a consulting assignment at the moment. As previously mentioned Adelaide, South Australia is home. So I'm a long way from home and this is only the second time I've been to the States. The last was in 1997.

So image how important Google Maps is for me. I can whack in my hotel's address and then that of my client site and bam! I can find the way there with ease.

But I haven't limited my use of Google's maps to just using the service. I've been reading Blogs about it. I found some interesting links all over the place regarding how it works. Here's a good one: http://jgwebber.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-google.html

But “mini-app“ that I thought was very neat is a little tour of Keene (a small town in MA, USA). The final comment made in the screencast about GPS being the tool to “annotate the planet“ is really quite funky.

Bring on the future - oh, and Google Maps for Australia please!