Yep, it’s live: Google Maps UK. Same features as the US version but without the creepy satellite photos (yet). Pretty accurate, good route-finding (although it automatically assumes A-roads are faster than anything else, which is not the case in London), and all the business data is taken from Yell so it’s got lots of great stuff in. Like, for instance, all the Indian restaurants near me. The top link, Indigo, I can strongly recommend.
Thomas David Baker | 20 Apr 2005
Bravo to google. Or about time too, depending on what way you look at it. But having used it tonight to look up Indian restaurants near me (funny that we had the same test) it doesn’t find an awful lot of them. I assume because they are not in the yell.com data. They are paid-for listings aren’t they? I wonder what arrangement google has as this is probably better for Yellow Pages than it is for Google, if you see what I mean.