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Where would we be without Google Maps?

Look away if you’re over a certain age.  This next sentence will be painful.

As of the date of this article, Google celebrates its twenty-fourth year in existence.   And Google Maps is seventeen.  They grow up so quickly.

But, as you might imagine, it hasn’t always been completely smooth.  And it’s had its issues.  Here are fifteen times things went, shall we say, just a little bit (or a lot) off the map, for better or worse. You can’t make some of these up. courtesy of Mashable.

But, we won’t leave here without giving Google Maps the love that it deserves, nor the information that you need:  this is not a fluff piece..  This is a moving target, but here are seven Google Maps features that you might want to investigate.  Read more here courtesy of BGR.com

Google Earth is lots of fun, as well. Located in the fertile agricultural region of Argentina’s ‘Pampas’ is a guitar-shaped forest made up of over 7,000 cypress and eucalyptus trees. A farmer named Pedro Martin Ureta planted the forest in memory of his wife. Click above.
TomTom is the daddy of GPS systems. Click above to learn more.
Hammacher Schlemmer have got tech. Click above.
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