09/25/2005   English German
  Edition # 56  
San Francisco, 09-25-2005

New Gimmicks on the Internet
Figure [1]: The new Google satellite images: Las Vegas from above

Recently, something came out that made me think: It's amazing what an exciting time we live in. The internet company Google released an innovative map service that allows you to see both street maps and the corresponding satellite images. Curious?

Then have a look at the Yahoo! buildings from a height of 90,000 feet. Amazing, right? There is even a website where people publish links to Google's satellite images that show special sightings. From Michael Jackson's 'Neverland Ranch', to the White House, to the large rock in Arches National Park, everything is included.

You can even see our house. The brilliant thing about it, of course, is that you can directly switch to the road map in the same location. If you zoom out further, you see which region of San Francisco we live in. Even further out and you can see where we are located on the North American continent. The absolute best part is that you can move the map with the mouse and travel around the world. Those Googlers are really clever foxes.

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