Incredible Advance of the "INTERNET"- All Kinds of Street Maps and Travel Maps for Everyone

[Stuart G]

....I was looking up for a high school that I taught at and the internet gave me a map of where it is. I realized at that
moment the fact that the internet provides maps for all places almost everywhere. And you can adjust the map to any
size immediately. I used to have to buy maps at a bookstore. Now everyone can get a map of any city or place at any
time for free. If your computer has a working printer, you can have a copy of it immediately. Cost?...ZERO.
Repeat: Any kind of map, and anywhere you want. If you have a working printer, it is yours immediately. Also, if you
want a certain part of the country, (like Yellowstone National Park) you can probably get that too immediately. No, I
haven't checked that out. Sorry.
Repeat: You can adjust the map immediately to any size. That is if you want a special neighborhood in a city, you
can have that immediately too. (If you know the name of the neighborhood and where it is) You can adjust the computer
to make it a large map of the entire city, or a small map of that neighborhood alone. In the days when you had to buy
maps (yes, I saved them) it might cost a lot to purchase the maps for the trip. Now, all you do is ...copy and print
a map you find at Google Search, and then print it and you have it. (Yes, any size and shape of any map, ANYWHERE
IN THE ENTIRE WORLD...
...OK, most anywhere, because some places are totally private and people who own those places find ways to stop
people looking for those places ...(No, I don't know that for sure, I assume that)
.... Computers have changed the map industry for everyone, anywhere, and any time.

[sanatanadharma]

1. OK, it will not be me, but someone is going to make money with this idea

Samsung has curved glass screens. Imagine a technology of a computer screen shaped as a semi-sphere.
Now imaging two semi-sphere screens, mated at the equator making a high-tech globe. A spherical Google Earth where the waters and lands can be overlaid with toggled on-off layers of names and borders and cities and clouds and all the minutia of man's measuring.

[Marcuse]

2. Maps and satellite imagery. It is amazing when you think about it.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. You can actually 'go' to damn near anyplace on earth with Google Earth

I've used it to visit places I lived or went to when I was a kid. Literally 'walk' the streets, looking around on my computer.

It's even more awesome (to me anyway) than maps.

[Stuart G]

4. You are totally correct. quote, "Literally "walk" the streets looking around on my computer"

See anything in the world that you wish to see. It is that kind of tool. I don't know what to say.
Like going into a great library, and not having to walk around or look in the "Card Catalogue."..........

Yes, there are people out there that don't know what the "Card Catalogue" was or is.
I don't have a clue, do you?