Cognitive Resonance

An excellent idea, and one which I’d wondered why Google had not offered before – a transit layer for Google Maps.

Although the lines themselves aren’t geographically accurate (at least in the examples they give of London), being only straight lines connecting the stations, it is still a very useful addition to Google Maps.

According to the Google LatLong post, it is currently available in the following cities

Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bordeaux, Brasilia, Cairo, Capetown, Caracas, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dallas, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Ekaterinburg, Essen, Frankfurt, Genoa, Guadalajara, Hamburg, Helsinki, Johannesburg, Kazan, Köln, Lille, Lisbon, London, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Medellin, Mexico City, Monterrey, Montreal, Munich, Naples, Nizhniy Novgorod, Oslo, Paris, Perth, Portland, Porto, Porto Alegre, Prague, Pretoria, Recife, Rennes, Rio de Janeiro, Samara, San Francisco, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tunis, Vienna, Warsaw.

Knowing Google, this will steadily expand in future…

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As it’s now 2009, some resolutions would be in order…

• Find a job… easier said than done.
• Replace my mobile phone when the contract expires in March.
• Get to the gym twice a week or more.
• Add more content to this site…

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Thanks to John Nack for blogging about this one: Idee’s Multicolour Search tool searches Flickr to find CC-licensed images which match specific colours.

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