Ok, so you're headed out of town and you want to shop at this particular store at your destination and you know where on the map it is but have no idea what the sore looks like and the area around it. No problem, Amazon's A9 new map service can help you out. In fact to make this work Amazon had people drive around 22 cities in the States with camera's hooked up to GPS enabled laptops to take all those pictures. Now that's cool.
A9 Officially Launches Maps Service; Block View Imagery Added for More Cities: "If you've come across the story today about A9 launching a map service and it sounds familiar, it just might be. About 6 weeks ago I blogged a couple of comments about the service becoming available and included a link to an overview by Greg Linden. So, what's really new at A9 today? 'Block View' imagery has been made available for a few more cities: Salt Lake City, UT Sacramento, CA Long Beach, CA Reno, NV..."
(Via Search Engine Watch Blog.)