One of the most helpful travel planning tools - Google Maps
March 3, 2008
Tomorrow I fly to Berlin - hopefully to arrive on time Wednesday morning to attend the summit’s first event at 10:30 am. One of the tools I have been using to plan my trip is Google Maps. I have used Google Maps on my sites before (mashups) and I found the took very easy to use. Since I’ve never been to Berlin I started researching the city and adding my findings onto the map I created. Then I found out that I could also make use of other Berlin maps created by other people (click on popular maps) as well as some from Google itself. While on my Berlin map page I can click on Google’s Featured Content and Places of Interest and from there I can click on Bars/Clubs, Banks/ATM’s, Coffee Shops (very important for Latte lovers like me), Major retail, etc. Once I click on one of the categories, Google overlays the map with hundreds of spots. For example, I looked at coffee shops and I found that there’s an Inernet Cafe very close by at Sömmeringstrasse 40 (the hotel is at number 24). The result is a very helpful map where I can see the airport in relation to my hotel and my hotel in relation to the ICC. With Google maps I have been able to more or less visualize where I will be and what spots I will be able to visit during my stay.
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