{"id":7545,"date":"2005-02-08T07:21:25","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T14:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/02\/08\/google-maps.html"},"modified":"2005-02-08T07:21:25","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T14:21:25","slug":"google_maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/08\/google_maps.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’re pretty, they’re smart, they’re slick. Google Maps<\/a> is going to give Mapquest and the like a serious run for their money.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the URLS are a lot shorter and nicer than MapQuests, and you can do searches like “hotels near centennial co” or “mile high comics” and get a nice map of locations. Suhweet.<\/p>\n

Oh, and no ads. Cool.<\/p>\n

I’m getting a few odd drop-outs of map sections, but that’s part of why it’s a Beta, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They’re pretty, they’re smart, they’re slick. Google Maps is going to give Mapquest and the like a serious run for their money. Oh, and the URLS are a lot shorter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130425,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/14\/cracking-shortened-urls-has-some-weirdly-scary-results.html","url_meta":{"origin":7545,"position":0},"title":"Cracking shortened URLs has some weirdly scary results","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Apr-16 10:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"URL shorteners remain a big thing, if only because some sites have crazy-awful URLs that they generate, and URL shorteners make it a lot easier to cut-and-paste those links in.[1]But some researchers have found that when you create such a link, it somehow (through the magic of bit.ly, for example),\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3782,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/28\/big_google_is_w.html","url_meta":{"origin":7545,"position":1},"title":"Big Google is Watching You","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Mar-03 8:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Hmmm. 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