mrshl | blog

Today Google Maps introduced a very useful new feature. If you find an address that doesn’t look quite right you can fix it, so that the address you’ve entered matches the actual map.

Having just purchased a new house, I was able to try the new map correction feature because my address was incorrectly listed as belonging to a house five doors east of my actual home. As you can see below, Google allowed me to correct the error. Note that if you move the marker more than 200 meters, a moderator has to approve your changes before they appear live on the Web.

Also notice the "Show original" link above, which is pretty handy if you want to check your work.

Tonight is huge image night, I guess. Clicky for the full size. 

I discovered this on my own, but Google Street View added Houston about two weeks ago. Looking at some of the pics, it looks like they used lower resolution pictures(you can’t zoom in far and still retain clarity). Maybe to the privacy concerns that cropped up in other cities? Most of the areas covered are on freeways or downtown. The picture quality on pretty much everything I’ve looked up is so terrible, it’s almost useless.

The damned Landmark Greenway 3 sign that I had to change many many times. Looks like somebody finally wised up and stopped putting the titles on the side that no traffic will see.

The River Oaks 3 theater. Man, just about every shot looks pretty terrible. I see the sun shining…did they forget to clean the lens?

This map of the Web is based on Tokyo’s metro line, and includes 200 of the Internet’s top sites, “ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.” To read more about how they did it, and to get your own downloadable copy, click here.