#6 Google Maps

I have just spent some time on the most excellent google maps. Maps and satellite pictures of everywhere in the city, and presumably as much of the world that they have been able to snoop. I was able to use the route planning to discover the quickest drive from my house to work is 4.5 km, yet the bus I catch takes a leisurely meander for 7.2km down backstreets taking twice as long! Even more amazing/disturbing is street view, where a picture, at street level is taken at every address and one can click and drag to walk down the street like a virtual tourist! (The picture of my house was taken sometime on a Wednesday morning as the recycling bin is out, if they'd let me know they were coming I would have mowed the lawn!). It is fun, but privacy campaigns must have convulsions, until next time AJ25 out.