Map Googling

GOOGLE's new "Google Maps" service is fairly impressive. I just ran a bunch of sales on Ebay (see "Even More Closet Cleaning" below). I was pleasantly surprised to see everything I put up for sale get bid upon except for two items, SOLDIERS by West End Games, and SPI's older WW2: EUROPEAN Theater of Operations. Anyhoo, as the requests for invoice have flooded in, I've been putting the addresses in to GOOGLE MAPS. The resulting map/satellite image is very cool and can zoom (in many locations, but not all) to a high degree of magnification. It's kind of neat to see that the guy you are selling a package to lives RIGHT HERE:



I've eradicated any data from this picture that would compromise this guy's privacy.

It's kind of neat to think that the package is going to a real, specific "first house on the left" on a real, specific street that I can see.

I mean, I KNEW that it was intellectually and all, but it's neat to actually SEE from a "God's eye" perspective.