Google has changed a bit...

[Karlos]

You can also freely sign up to use the google maps API in your own sites (as long as you don't use it for a service you make somebody else pay for).

Which is nice...

[Karlos]

boing wrote:
I don't understand your tilt/angle references.

sboisvert, how do you say google further invades your privacy?

I'm interested in hiking and exploring. And I love the *color* satellite images from http://maps.google.com.  I'd like to equip my laptop with a GPS unit (maybe a USB device so it could also be used with a PDA) and some satellite-imaged map software.  Anybody got any solid, experienced recommendations???

Assuming you have yourself a website, you can get a google map API key for it.

You can then make yourself a small tool that will centre and zoom on any geocoded location you give it, deal for a GPS