Google Maps now has Terrain view

There's also an ability to have users contribute corrections to Google Maps data ("Fix it"), which I haven't noticed before:

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/edit/promo.html#utm_campaig...

One of these days, Google needs to get their act together and create a _real_ flight simulator. A data set like this is the stuff that legendary software is made of. Just imagine what you could do with this accurate terrain data, satellite imagery and a few CPU-centuries of pattern recognition.

Who says we don't need terabyte hard dives? We need petabytes.

At least in my area (Ann Arbor), the resolution is too low to see much. As a cyclist/runner, for instance, one might be curious about steep inclines around town. No such luck here.

Wow! Wow wow wow. This is really awesome drawing technology. I wonder where they get the data from.