
As ever, google sounds like innovation and it does really fits our most curious ambitions, the new google's tool "Google maps" will help you getting the right map (actually supporting only USA) with no more tears, just type your location (even a street name) and them you'll get it, a set of tools is also offered to zoom, move and rezoom locations.
The maps search works great, but we are still waiting for localized maps such as Tunisia, and may be the ability to save in a vectorial format the shown map.
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I am sorry but this is not an innovation, this exists since 2000 in europe :-)
(see http://blog.lemonde.fr/t/trackback/4048 and comments)
it exists even before 1999 in the US with mapquest.com our mouse hunter hunted it 6 years late
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