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Essential Resources for Google Maps (VIA Digg)
Taking Google Maps to the next level. But one of my favorite sites built on the bones of Google Maps still has to be the Flickr Memory Maps site. You take a satellite image of the neighborhood where you grew up, and add Flickr notes to tell the story of your childhood. I was all set to post one as well, but with all the great quality images that Google has, it seems that the satellite that flew over my old hometown must have been taken around the time of Sputnik, and is a really crappy shot with bad resolution. Nobody wanted to hear those silly stories, anyhow!

And since we are on the subject of maps, Mathew at A Complete Waste Of Time brings us a A handy map of crime, what it looks like on the ground when people use Google maps, as well as a useful map of Shanghai, featuring 14 choice spots to go kill yourself.