I love this new 8-bit map of London by Brett Camper, showing what happens when the vintage graphical power of the NES meets the cutting edge GPS data of Google maps. You can zoom in and out and search for your house, although obviously it doesn’t really have the resolution of the Google original, so you’re not going to be able to see your car parked outside or wave to your Mum. (or see your house.)

He’s also done New York…

Found this great visual trace tool on Uneasysilence. It lets you see how the data which makes up your website actually gets to the viewer, through various servers and gateways. It uses Google Maps to show you, so you can zoom around and look at it as a map or a satellite image as usual.

The image here shows the route for holster.co.uk