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- LethaLImpuLse, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24Um.... yes we do.
- Portfolioso, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Stolen from Yahoo... And Google does it better --> you can hide it better.
Muhahah. the competition is glorious. And the users win because these big companies keep struggling to release cool new stuff to be number 1! - ahura7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Nice. This is one of the things that I've liked about Yahoo! Maps Beta but wasn't on Google Maps.
- CypherXero, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14Photoshop had this feature first. :)
- FlyingLlama, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13how else would i have found this out so soon! and how else could we all discuss it?
people, if you don't like it on the front page then just don't digg it. digg is a democracy so since it's on the front page it means that most people want it there and over here
MAJORITY RULES ON DIGG.COM.
thank you. :) - mikebeauchamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5WHAT KIND OF KEYBOARD DID HE GET?!?!
- chaosmachine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6What I'd like is the ability to draw a zoom box over the area I want to enlarge, and have it automatically zoom in to make that area fill my screen.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7 Do we have to list every minuscule new feature on the front page?
...and in a related story, at the top of today's internet news -- this guy in northern California just got a new keyboard. He reported that he likes it better than the old one. Meanwhile, a guy in Iowa just turned off his monitor. - anduril, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Be careful Folio, the socialists on here may become offended by the virtues of free-market.
- MOGua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Yes, majority rules -- but in such a society, unless the masses are being well educated, it is a recipe for disaster and an inappropriately high regard for trivialities."
I am glad there are still intelligent folks on digg.
well said. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Yes, majority rules -- but in such a society, unless the masses are being well educated, it is a recipe for disaster and an inappropriately high regard for trivialities. Look at the crap that passes for news in any american tV news shows. Watered down trivialities for the ignorant masses, who imagine they are so free. Meanwhile, the real news goes unreported in the mass media. I am afraid diff is becoming like that.
Perhaps there should just be a limit on the number of americans on digg, or we should all havae to pass a test before being welcomed with full voting rights
Instead of just being so 'righteous', one can learn from those with more knowledge and a greater appreciation of more advanced and relevant topics. - CKR600, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Scroll wheel zoom with onOver mouse should be next.
- navinjohnson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3 map.addControl(new GOverviewMapControl());
- FlyingLlama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4very well said WaterDragon.
- ronk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Implemented here:
http://weblogs.asp.net/rajbk/archive/2005/07/23/420315.aspx - jeff1943, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I love how it has the special effect when you drag the box around.
- Hergio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice job Ronk, I actually find it rather useful. I'd prefer right clicking though to use the zoom window
- therernospoons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's about bloody time!
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3it's not a dynamic zoom window, it's a dynamic scroll window. a dynamic zoom window would be nice.
- arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yahoo uses Flash so I don't care about that, but does anyone know how the Microsoft map allows use of the scroll wheel? I looked in to detecting the scroll wheel with javascript recently and couldn't find anything on how to do it. Similarly for the right click menu that comes up, it works in Firefox on Linux (as does the scroll wheel) so it's not Active X trickery. I'm wondering if it is javascript since they are suppressing the normal context menu and with the settings I have in Firefox that shouldn't be possible.
- kefs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4well said FlyingLlama..
and since when is a feature used by two competing services/products considered "stealing"? mitcharoni states that a like feature was used 13 yrs ago.. I guess Yahoo's! stealing! you use whichever product/service works best for you.. if you like.. you can use both.. seems to me this is well-needed, and better developed, feature. - prot0col, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They will "borrow" that from Yahoo! Maps shortly.
- nirav72, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Gmaps still doesn't support the mouse scroll wheel for zooming in. Even microsoft's virtual earth and Yahoo maps support it on their mapping site.
- cohman2001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2that is so handy
wish they had that before when you had to scroll, and scroll, and scroll... i think you get my point - sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I still love Windows Live's Right Click Features and such.
- sodium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1but, but... those aren't new features!!!
- atheken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is called an "Extent Map" for anybody in the GIS realm.
- KielEWyote, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Not really news if you ask me, just a small new feature. Kind of cool though, but I'm not diggin' it.
- shiftless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's okay, but the Home, End, PgUp & PgDn keys work better
- ender52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah... They could call it Google Earth! That would be awesome.
- xcodeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How do you add this to Google Maps API?
- livestradamus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3All we need is google to add to this is 3D viewing of Satellite images. Imagine looking down, north, south, east & west from ground level
ohhh eyegasm mmm - andaya, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yahoo had this first. Just love the way this goes back and forth with these two companies.
Both companies are just getting better and better. - allanj37, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Awesome, a mini-map!
- mitcharoni, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2We used to call this a "bird's eye" window back in the ole AutoCAD days. Pretty cool feature. Would be nice if you could resize the bird's eye window and have the zoom level reflected in the main window. Then it would be exactly like a 13 year-old DOS program.
- RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nice new feature. Looks like Google is keeping close tabs on what Yahoo Maps Beta is cooking up. I may actually like Yahoo Maps Beta bettah at the mo. But then Yahoo Maps sucked for a long time.
- siouxmoux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1So which one of the major Search engine is zooming who msn, google, yahoo ask? Find out next Monday on digg.com!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3What, no exclamation points? No digg.
- nymbot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Google is loosing ground in the maps department now that Yahoo and others have played catch up. They're definately the first choice for developers still, but anything they can do to improve their maps will help them stay on top.
By the way, I recomend checking out Google Maps Hacks by O'Reilly, a lot of cool mapping hacks are in that book. - jacko7, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2very cool, helpful too
- gladding, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1so what's the damn code so I can use it?
- arunforce, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5Nifty. I hated zooming out just to move over faster.
Google Maps does seem a bit laggy now.
Probably just me.
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http://arunforce.blogspot.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4not really that useful to be honest? or am i the only one thinking that...
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http://www.diggfans.com - Digg Forums :) - ksgant, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5Using a magnifying glass on a paper map did this first...no digg.
- emosewami, on 10/12/2007, -17/+12Of course. Google could update a question in one of their buried help files and it would be front-paged on Digg.
- GuyOnOatmealBox, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5So how long did it take to steal that from yahoo?
- nicklinus, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2just another thing google stole from yahoo!
- techware, on 10/12/2007, -19/+8THIS made front page?
Sad. - kefs, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1[deleted]
- benc, on 10/12/2007, -26/+8Useful feature, but no digg this time.
We don't really need a front page story for every tweak that Google makes to its web apps. ;-)
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