Google Maps: The Never Ending Quest For Perfection

&#62; <i>It’s hard to remember what digital maps were like before Google Maps went live in 2005</i><p>Everybody used MapQuest. What's so hard to remember about that??<p>&#62; <i>and the huge technological breakthroughs that transformed clicking on arrows and waiting, to simply dragging a map with a mouse and watching it render smoothly and quickly.</i><p>I mean, it was nice, but was this really a "huge technological breakthrough"? It's not like Google Maps invented AJAX. It was a fairly straightforward improvement.<p>Sorry, but this author exaggerates a wee bit much.

Offtopic: I really don't get the point of the blogspot.com domain now redirecting to blogspot.com.TLD for every Blogger blog.<p>I actually find it a little bit annoying.

I'm quite impressed. It's a bit eerie, though, to have the illusion of a helicopter shot while noticing the cars are frozen in time.

I'm so excited to have proper offline maps for Android! I have lots of space left on my SD card, let me fill it with map data please.

If this happened to be on or close to April 1, I would have never made it past the picture of the guy on skis.

"So today we’re announcing that offline Google Maps for Android are coming in the next few weeks."

One can't help but wonder at the timing of all of this.<p>Given that Apple has owned Poly9, Placebase and C3 for nearly 3 years and released nothing makes you wonder what they've been up to. I guess it's enough to rattle Google. I think they would be hoping that Apple confines it to iOS and doesn't "do a WebKit" and game change the market.