Map Tips

Institute for Analytic Journalism blogged about PC World columnist Steve Bass's article Maps for Fun and Business. The blog article seems to imply that the new Google Earth, which we talked about here was no longer available, but I just tried it and it worked fine.

Steve's article raises an issue about apparent bluring of some buildings

but discussion on AboveTopSecret reveal they are weather balloons.

There are several interesting sites listed in the article, such as Google Sightseeing