Google Maps now streetmaps Guadalajara!
It used to be the only option to streetmap Guadalajara WP was to use local mapmaker Guia Roji’s crappy — and I mean crappy — interface. Google, Yahoo, and the like had the nice satellite imagery but that isn’t nearly as useful to give directions. Street names are a whole lot more useful than trees to find your way around.
Englishman Gwyn once stepped in to teach a local (or was a local teaching an English man?) about MapQuest, which has a better interface than Guia Roji but still isn’t draggable.
But that’s all in the past. An unknown while ago Google Maps updated its database and now includes pretty, draggable street maps of Guadalajara (and a lot of other Mexican cities). This is major people.
Unfortunately, while you can search for businesses (in a so-so fashion, there isn’t yet much online info for Google to mine) you can’t yet search for particular addresses. This shouldn’t be much of a problem, Google Maps is the poster child of the new web for a reason — ah, the beauty of true interactivity!
Another unfortunately: the street map is oddly not yet available trough a Blackberry.
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It’s been around for a few weeks but I’m still using Mapquest, old habits die hard. Thanks for the tip Mr. ELZR.
Next phototour’s probably to Tequila on Sat 21st of this month I think…Yep, Monterrey tambien ya tiene mapita. El otro dia lo descubri por accidente, pero todavia esta medio chafoso. Pero bueno… peor es nada. We’re one step closer haha
chafoso warum?
Pues por eso que no sirve para buscar calles y asi. Entonces pues no esta tan practico para ver como llegar a lugares que de plano no sabes donde estan. Tienes que saber la zona para luego poder buscarlas. Osea… si guia roji tiene busqueda de calles… why no google maps?? haha
saluditos!