Fear and Loathing on the Learning Curve: Observations on Life, Tech and Web Design from a Slightly Misanthropic Mind

Google Maps Comes To UK

Having men­tioned Google Maps in pre­vi­ous posts, it’s worth point­ing out that the ser­vice has now come to the UK.

Google Maps UK doesn’t yet have satel­lite over­lays like its US coun­ter­part, but that should be soon to come. The Google Local business-finding ser­vice has also been por­ted.

Applying Google’s happy help­ful ethos to map­ping seems to have paid off. You can enter any loc­a­tion and be given a map, or you can enter a basic route (such as “London to Brighton”) to be presen­ted with instruc­tions and maps on how to accom­plish it.

The Local ser­vice allows you to enter a loc­a­tion or post­code and find busi­nesses or ser­vices in the loc­ale, such as taxis or pizza places. There are, appar­ently, 18 places selling our favour­ite Italian flat­bread nour­ish­ment within 5 miles of my house :D.