I just learnt that Google Maps can now be embedded like YouTube videos within a HTML page. That is quite useful. Below is a Google Maps embed of my home street (Yishun Central):
View Larger Map
You can click and drag the mouse to navigate within the image, or zoom in and out using the "+" and "-" buttons on the left panel.
The "Map", "Sat" and "Hyb" buttons shows the plain map, or the satellite photo, or a hybrid combining both the map and the satellite photo.
Click on the "View Larger Map" link to go to Google Maps directly where you can search for other locations.
Besides Google Maps, which runs in a web browser, Google also has a more powerful standalone desktop application called Google Earth. Google Earth now even includes an astronomy feature (called "Sky"). The new "Sky" function of Google Earth is introduced here:
Google Earth (version 4.2) can be downloaded from here:
http://earth.google.com/sky/index.html
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