Google Maps

Today we explored Google Maps.  Google maps is just another one of the many features that Google has.  On Google maps, you enter a starting address and a destination into the search and then hit enter.  Google maps will give you a picture with the most convenient route and directions to (or from) the destination.  One of the neat features about Google maps are the different types of maps that they offer.  For example, on the "traffic" feature, Google will show the speed of traffic in populated areas.  The regular "map" feature just shows highways, and the "satellite" feature shows basically a picture of the surrounding area.  If you drag the little orange person to a spot on the map, it will zoom so that you can literally navigate up and down the streets to see landmarks and the town's streets.  Freshman year if you dropped the person on Buckeye you could see me driving past the Seelye Mansion in my car!
On my screenshot, I search for directions from Abilene, Kansas to Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas, because that's where I am going to school.  The pictures are another cool thing, because they show major landmarks of cities or just pretty pictures associated with that area.  If you look closely, you can see the statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower over Abilene.