A9

Hola!! I've got an admin team meeting this morning. This is where the upper management here at the City gets informed about what's happening. Our City Manager recently applied for a position at another City so I'm sure that will be the big news.

"A9.com, Inc. researches and builds innovative technologies to improve search experience for e-commerce applications. A separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. A9.com’s technology will power search on Amazon.com and other web sites." A9 maps uses Mapquest maps and is similar to Mapquest except for one feature. "A9.com developed new technology to very efficiently capture photographs of places along public streets using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware." They call it BlockView. You can view Blockview images for about 24 major cities. It's an interesting concept, but the site locked up on me twice. Check it out at http://maps.a9.com/.