Triangulations: March 13

The Batch Geocoding Blog has a comparison of the Google, MapQuest and Yahoo! mapping APIs; it’s a quick outline of what the author sees as the pros and cons of each. Via Very Spatial.
Alex Stengel says MapMemo 2.5 is now out; see previous entries about MapMemo’s previous releases here and here.
Friday’s edition of Le Monde had an article on Google Earth —featuring quotes from our friend Thierry Rousselin — and another on satellite imaging more generally. Via Ogle Earth.
The Harvard Crimson profiles literature prof Tom Conley, who’s interested in maps and cartography, but, being in the humanities, explains what he’s doing extremely abstrusely.
The Detroit News’s “Trash or Treasure” feature — basically a print version of The Antiques Roadshow — has a look at a local man’s map of Europe that turns out to date from the early 1700s.

The Map Room