Google Maps now has a great feature: My Maps. It lets you keep your own personal set of tags. Some people have gotten very creative: Presidential Election maps, vacation maps, all the Major League Baseball stadiums, and more.
I decided to make a personal map, and marked it with all the places I have lived in my life. You can find it
here (if anyone is really interested in where I have lived). I'm sure I can think of really good uses for My Maps, but for now I'm content to stare down at roofs of the places I have called home.
And speaking of Google Maps: Remember your first flight across the US when you were little? You looked out the window and wondered why you couldn't see the big dotted lines marking the borders between states. Well, I've been using the Hybrid feature of Google Maps for a while. When I was flying across California recently, I was trying to figure out which city or highway we were over. I really wished I could click a button and see the hybrid feature of street and city names overlaid across the landscape. And coming home, I didn't know if we were crossing the Sierras or the Rockies. It would have been nice to have everything labeled for me, at least as an option. And while I'm wishing, I wouldn't have minded a feature to remove the cloud cover. You don't see any clouds on Google Maps!