On 11/25/05, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/25/05, Rachel Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/24/05, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> inquired thusly: > > > > > Is there map software for Linux? As in, I tell it a location, and it > > > gives me a map? > > > > Yes. Any web browser. > > Alas, Google Maps nowhere near approaches the featurefulness and > usefulness of a program like, say, Microsoft's Streets and Trips or > that Rand McNally stuff. And Google Maps is not available offline. >
Being that location based search and ubiquitous wireless internet access go hand in hand, and that google has already started working on both issues (maybe only in the bay area so far but we all know what's coming.....) I bet you that the monetary motivation will eliminate both of those complaints within a few years or less. It's the ultimate on demand add system. -Tom -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
