Comments on: Google Maps: Around the Mulberry Bush http://www.davidhenderson.com/2007/11/20/google-maps-around-the-mulberry-bush/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-maps-around-the-mulberry-bush Writer, communications strategist, Emmy Award winning former CBS News correspondent Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:24:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Alissa http://www.davidhenderson.com/2007/11/20/google-maps-around-the-mulberry-bush/#comment-527 Alissa Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:40:15 +0000 http://www.davidhenderson.com/blog/2007/11/20/google-maps-around-the-mulberry-bush/#comment-527 I really hate how so many of the directions send you so far out of the way. On the other hand i remember long before online maps, when i use to have to try and figure out from AAA maps how to get places, I often took the longer, more congested route. (Or at least that's the way it seemed.) One of the most interesting things that i have seen Google Maps do lately, is their usefulness in helping with natural and human disasters. KPBS was updating this Google map every 5 - 15 minutes during the latest California wildfire crisis. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114250687465160386813.00043d08ac31fe3357571 This allowed individuals monitor the progress of the fire, the warning and evacuations down to the street level I really hate how so many of the directions send you so far out of the way. On the other hand i remember long before online maps, when i use to have to try and figure out from AAA maps how to get places, I often took the longer, more congested route. (Or at least that’s the way it seemed.)

One of the most interesting things that i have seen Google Maps do lately, is their usefulness in helping with natural and human disasters. KPBS was updating this Google map every 5 – 15 minutes during the latest California wildfire crisis.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114250687465160386813.00043d08ac31fe3357571

This allowed individuals monitor the progress of the fire, the warning and evacuations down to the street level

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