A9 Maps - Now with Block View - Virtual Tour

Given all the crazyness about online local maps lately, I gave A9 Maps another visit tonight.

They’ve got a pretty neat product there right now - check it out:

On certain streets, you can actually ‘walk’ up and down and see all the stores on both sides. That’s super cool.

I did notice that the address/physical picture mapping was a bit off - for example, to get the Ed Sullivan Theater to appear, I had to enter 1700 Broadway (it’s actually at 1697). The Wall Street area was really bad - which isn’t surprising due to the tight narrow streets, and the security related closures. But even on larger streets, not all have maps of both sides.

They also have maps available for a number of other cities like Austin, San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston (they have streets? I thought they were just cow paths!) and others.

Pretty neat. I suspect that this must be far more useful in places where street names change frequently - or where people don’t really use addresses. From what I’ve heard, India and Japan are two such places.