This is really cool

Roland put me onto this new map service from Google. It really is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time.

The first and coolest thing is real-time panning. You can just stick your little cursor on the map and drag it to move the map in any direction. Second, it automatically sizes to make the biggest possible map for you screen. That was something that drove me crazy about every other map service. Who was the crazy guy who thought up the idea of first offering someone a map so small you couldn't read it and then offering them a bigger map only after you click a "bigger map" button?

Check it out -- you'll dig it.