Google Streetview Hyperlapse

Simply amazing.

Update: What's even better... go make your own on the Teehan+Lax. Here's my 30-40 commute, roughly, from home to work. There & back in 10 seconds.

(ht Gordon Price on Pricetags)

Tourism Maps for Vancouver

Before I leave for my month-long vacation to Paris and Portugal tomorrow (it happens when you've accumulated it all over the year in a new job), I thought I'd add a link to a cool website called Gridskipper, "the decadent urban travel guide. [They] Scour[ing] the globe for chic hotels, hot restaurants, sweet nightlife, and pretty people."

Tips on things to do and places to see are demarked by cities across the globe and tips are mashed with Google Maps as a result. It's been useful for my own personal research.

Not a bad place to get your bearings too when you are there. Here's Vancouver's Gridskipper site, although it would be nice to see it updated a little more often.

Don't get stuck in Seattle traffic!

Saw this posting on The Map Room blog. Went for more info on the official Google blog.

It's not quite Vancouver related but a real-time traffic map for Seattle will be handy when figuring out the best highway to take when I'm on my way to Seaside, OR for some surfing with the boys later on in a few months.

Seattlites, much empathy for you. I heard they are doing some major work on your freeways. The commute must be brutal some mornings. Heck, maybe I should just read about it here.