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Google Maps Turns Recent Edits Into Voyeuristic Experience
via ParisLemon by MG Siegler on January 24, 2008
In a move that kind of reminds me of Google's attempt to make a strange interactive experience out of watching what photos people post to Blogger (but much less creepy), the Google Lat Long Blog yesterday announced that you can now watch and follow in real-time as people make edits to Google Maps.
These are the edits that users can now make to various locations to give them pinpoint accuracy (rather than say having the address on the wrong side of the street, or wrong corner of a building). The more zoomed in on an area you are, the more focus seems to remain on that zoomed in area - so if you wanted to see who was updating what in your hometown, you could presumably do that. One problem - I cannot figure out how to zoom back out after zooming in via double-click.
While I'm not exactly sure how "addictive" it is to watch this, it is somewhat interesting and I do still think that giving the community the ability to update and edit the public map is brilliant.
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