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Lost? Google will show you the way...

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27 November 2008 12:00 GMT / By Ian Hughes

It’s not that long ago that if you looked at a map, all you expected to see was a place you might want to go to.

These days, if the map doesn’t tell you what the weather is like, how wide the street is and how much the pizza costs in the local takeaway, we somehow feel short-changed.

Google Maps is pretty cool – fact. Here’s a useful little guide around one of its latest features.

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