[APPLE-L]: INTERST: Ya gotta love convergence.... Google Street Maps, meet Google Satellite maps

last Friday, Google introduced Google Maps Hybrid which is "Google Maps Transparancies" on steroids. Just point your web browser to

http://maps.google.com/

search for something, and then in the upper right corner of the map click on the "Hybrid" button. Google Maps will show you a satellite image with street names and points of interests laid on top of that image. For example, if you go to

http://tinyurl.com/8tqs7

you'll see Tower Bridge--and the surrounding street names--in London. And, yes, like all Google maps this map is draggable.

Google Maps is still in beta, so some of the hybrid maps are still a little off [like Tower Bridge Road or streets north of Ground Zero at http://tinyurl.com/7banf .] Still, the Hybrid maps feature is an amazing addition to a tool that is already amazing.