Aaaaargh multimap.co.uk is dead. Reaped by the Corporate Beast. It's suddenly utter shit.
I'm surprised it took Micro$oft so long... http://www.multimap.com/press/press_releases/pr185_microsoft/
Looks the same as it has for ages, what's shit about it? I tend to flip between google maps and multimap, as I don't find one to be substantively better than the other.
Is there a company, who do something that google do, who do it better than google do? I can't think of any, off-hand.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Do-dooo-de-doo... BOOH! Take it to the bridge...
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ It allows Apple fanbois to see where they're walking without looking up from their iPhones.
I think.. Mozilla make a better browser, but they've been at it longer. Yahoo have a better photo site with Flickr than Google do with Picassa. And finally MS Messenger is better than google talk. not exactly a long list.
OK, say you're going somewhere you've not been before, you can see roughly where the place is on a map, but noclues as to what the place looks like from the street.. what the parking is like, etc. Streetview lets you have a look down the street without being there, and for me as I've reasonable a photographic memory I know what I'm looking for as though I've been there before, without aimlessly looking around.
Exackerly. I just moved to Melbourne and was looking for somewhere to live. Found a place, checked it on Google Maps, went to street view, checked what the place looked like, chucked it in GPS and knew exactly what I was in for when I got there. Move in tonight.
But then, they bought flickr, google had to build picasa from the ground up. -- | | Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a | | | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit | | Andrew Halliwell BSc | operating system originally coded for a 4 bit | | in |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that| | Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |
It also lets me look on my street at my motorbike wot got swiped over the summer. It'll be a reminder for quite a while, I imagine. Doubt they'll do many streetview updates unless something radical changes on the maps.
I tried mozilla years ago and didn't care for it. I like chrome a lot, though I haven't compared it with a recent mozilla (why would I?) I'm sure a lot of it is about which you've been using most recently/longest, or whatever. I don't really care for flickr. And I've never knowingly used picassa. I don't really upload photos. The me.com photo sites work well for me, as a viewer. my IM usage has dropped radically, since I'm not on the same timezone as most of my contacts. exactly.
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In the last week I've used it to check the way into an office building where I had a meeting, and to get the name of a PC components shop on my route home so I could call them to see if they had some memory in stock. These days I'd almost certainly use it to take a look at anywhere I'm supposed to go, if I haven't been there before. It only takes a minute, and potentially saves me from wandering around wondering where the **** it is. It's good for checking out bike parking too.
When walking from a tube station down a long street, not all of whose houses have numbers on them, in the pissing rain pulling a big suitcase behind you, it's nice to have an idea of how far it is from the streetview you looked at beforehand.
