http://www.flashearth.com/
This mashup is a combination of different aerial maps that allows you to easily switch between the different views of the Earth. The sources available on this website are NASA maps, OpenAerialMap, Open Layers, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Microsoft VE (labels), Yahoo! maps, and Ask.com maps. It's very easy to switch between the maps and it's nice that all the maps provide you with a different view. However, I do not think that this mashup is useful on a daily basis. I know that I will never go back to this site and look at the maps again. It's cool to look at for a few minutes, but after that I don't think this mashup provides any useful tools or information. Due to the fact that this website is a mashup you can categorize this website as a form of Web 2.0. Also, it is interactive in the sense that you can switch between maps, zoom, and scroll across the maps as much as you want. Overall, I like the idea of taking two interesting websites and putting them together to create a completely new website/tool!
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I have a couple of friends who are really into maps, and they would love to play with this. I can also see this potentially being helpful to researchers. But yeah for everyday use, I don't think this has a lot of practical uses.
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