{"id":51,"date":"2005-03-03T12:58:51","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/archives\/2005\/03\/google-maps-goes-north\/"},"modified":"2005-03-03T12:58:51","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T19:58:51","slug":"google-maps-goes-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2005\/03\/03\/google-maps-goes-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Goes North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Google has extended its <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">map database<\/a> to include locations north of the 50th parallel. Now people can get travelling information for Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and the like.<\/p>\n<p>Very cool.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few bugs still. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=53.317749%2C-60.392658&amp;spn=0.010254%2C0.019498&amp;gl=us\">Happy Valley-Goose Bay<\/a> in Labrador does not have street names and you cannot zoom into the maximum amount. Other than things like that, it rocks. Can&#8217;t wait until it&#8217;s out of beta.<\/p>\n<p>Now if they could just allow me to scroll with my scrollwheel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Google has extended its map database north of the 50th parallel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2005\/04\/05\/google-satellite-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":51,"position":0},"title":"Google Satellite Maps","author":"Kim Siever","date":"5 April 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"When will it end? In an effort to out pace Yahoo! Maps, Google has now implemented integration of satellite imagery with Google Maps. Users can now switch between the traditional map view and the satellite view. So now not only can you use Google Maps to see how to get\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Google&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Google","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/google\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":85,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2005\/04\/19\/google-maps-in-the-uk-ireland\/","url_meta":{"origin":51,"position":1},"title":"Google Maps in the UK &amp; Ireland","author":"Kim Siever","date":"19 April 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Google has gone outside of North america for Google Maps. It now includes the UK and Ireland. I'm delighted to introduce Google Local UK and Google Maps UK. The Google UK office and a few of us homesick Brits in California have been helping out with the development.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Google&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Google","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/google\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":170,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2006\/06\/02\/reply-by-chat-in-gmail\/","url_meta":{"origin":51,"position":2},"title":"Reply by chat in GMail","author":"Kim Siever","date":"2 June 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Google has released a new feature in GMail: reply by chat. I have wanted to do this numerous times. On the surface it looks cool, to be able to see someone who has sent you email is online. There's more however; it also groups the resulting chat log in with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Google&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Google","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/google\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Reply With Chat","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/63\/158708801_5512db5e5b_o.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":21,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2004\/09\/28\/database-integration-with-flash\/","url_meta":{"origin":51,"position":3},"title":"Database Integration with Flash","author":"Kim Siever","date":"28 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Dennis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 solution was exactly what I needed. Well, actually, not quite what I needed. His solution worked for getting the data from the database and importing it to Flash. That was the biggest hurdle. What it did not do was allow for importing separate records. So I modified it.","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2004\/09\/28\/database-integration-with-flash\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":158,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2006\/02\/08\/gmail-and-google-talk\/","url_meta":{"origin":51,"position":4},"title":"GMail and Google Talk","author":"Kim Siever","date":"8 February 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"If you haven't heard, Google announced an integration between Google Talk and GMail. This means Google Talk users will now be able to chat directly in the browser. Even more, GMail users will be able to chat with each other, without having to install Google Talk. A step closer to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Google&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Google","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/google\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":75,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2005\/04\/05\/google-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":51,"position":5},"title":"Google Video","author":"Kim Siever","date":"5 April 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently, Google release a service called Google Video in January. Users can enter a search term and Google Video will return video stills from TV shows where the search term occurred. 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