NVinNYC

Google Maps now shows nifty dimetric projections of city buildings when you zoom in to the highest two zoom levels. This data is obviously based on the 3D buildings that are available in Google Earth. Furthermore, in New York City (and perhaps other metro areas too?) they’ve added markers for subway (both MTA and PATH) stops.

Check it out these maps of Union Square, New York City and Portland, OR for examples.

It’s great to see Google continuing to develop this tool.

Update (2/20/07): I beat Kottke to the punch but he confirms that stops for the T in Boston and the L in Chicago are also featured on the maps.

PS: Wow, 200th post!  Yay for blogging!

James Duncan Davidson writes:

Story of My Life:

Me too.. way too much these days.

I’m selling my G5. It’s served me well but it’s time to move on. Are you interested in a kick-ass machine? Details here.

I’ve recently switched my host from TextDrive to DreamHost. Unfortunately, this means my site may be offline for a bit over the next day or two. I’ll update again when everything has been reset on the new servers.

Update (7/12): The transition is complete if you’re seeing this, but be sure to let let me know if anything isn’t behaving as expected.

I decided I want to upgrade to a MacBook so I’m selling my iBook.

I don’t know if the MacBook is really what I want since it doesn’t have a good graphics card to play games (with Boot Camp) but it’s such a tempting little machine (and one really needs a tower for games anyway). I’d rather have something smaller than a 13″ model, but there’s no indication that Apple is ever going to make a smaller laptop (if they do I might have to loose the MacBook).