{"id":1115,"date":"2005-02-15T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/google_maps_the"},"modified":"2005-02-15T02:00:56","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T07:00:56","slug":"google_maps_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps &#8211; the future has arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\"><strong>Google Maps<\/strong><\/a> are amazing. They provide incredible detail and ease of use. I will probably never use any other mapping service again.<\/p>\n<p>There is a single search field in which you enter an address or whatever directions you care to give it.&nbsp; It seems to take freeform input. <\/p>\n<p>I entered this: La Cienega and Sunset Blvd Los Angeles CA<\/p>\n<p>I got an instant map at the exact scale I wanted. This is an example of what happens when you get your product features right, rather than reasonably good.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s back to the drawing board for Yahoo and MapQuest. Google owns the map business now.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrystorch.com\/\">Terry Storch<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps are amazing. They provide incredible detail and ease of use. I will probably never use any other mapping service again. There is a single search field in which you enter an address or whatever directions you care to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1804],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-hZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}