the google maps flight sim

viral marketing works… at least for me. today i got the link to goggles :: the google maps flight sim, a flash-game that rips off google maps’ satellite images and lets you fly around on it. for steering use the arrow keys, the ‘a’ & ‘z’ keys throttle speed and, as an extra gimmick, you can use ’space’ to fire. here’s an explanation on the corresponding site:

I have plans to add a building in a user defined location that you can shoot at after a number of requests from people who want to shoot up their exgirlfriends house / workplace / etc.

hehe, i like that. by the way, the game’s still beta. i wonder if google allows such use of it’s copyrighted map material and if it’s servers can stand the ongoing traffic consumption. we’ll see if the site has been taken down on lawyers advice in the the next few days/weeks/months.

anyway, i dare that googles’ api has implemented methods for ongoing map retrieval. the coder writes that he has figured out himself how he can accomplish something like this. i hope he did do it in an elegant way for the reasons mentioned above.

the guy is searching for a job, so i will take this as a reason to link his main site here. i like the robot on rollerskates tho.