Google Maps - That’s one of the most useful resources in the web. And a good usage of AJAX. Now, microsoft live team has turn into it; Live Local.

When I first saw the site… mmm.. it’s interesting - focused into colombo. ZOOM IN.. ZOOM IN… I was thinking like… ok. no more than that.. No. It’s going going.. WOW! Yeah! really. Then I realized that they are just rendering a zoomed version of earier images once after you reached level. Since, these are not real images, unlike in google maps, you can easily (err.. i didn’t really mean it.) do it.

Well, they have a traffic detials which is working and not going to work in Sri Lanka for at least for next few more years and a driving directions feature. I though that it’ll give the same result saying that this service not enabled in your area. No.. It’s not.. they are providing it. Well, it’s not realistic. They are just running something like dijktra’s algo and displaying the result, but with traffic detials and so on, I guess it’ll be really cool on some other countries.

I was thinking like, if **someone** can start an open source mapping service like this, so that anyone can enter detials here and there, I mean people can add data into the map such as roads, etc; then it’ll be really cool.

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