Thing #6

The Web 2.0 Top 100 award winner I chose to blog about is Live Search Maps http://www.maps.live.com/ .  This site is a map search site that allows its users to look up any number of locations, from street addresses to airports to hotels. Not only can you look up the locations, it gives you directions and aerial views of your destination. For someone like me who likes detailed directions when I travel, this site is perfect for me.
Some of the other useful features of this site are, traffic patterns, map apps such as gas prices and parking finders, detailed aerial views, and locations of restaurants and hotels.  It also has a feature that allows you to send the directions you find to your phone or email.  If I can maneuver around this site, anyone can. Very easy to use.
One of the ways in which teachers could use this site in a lesson is by showing the topography of certain areas.  With the detailed aerial views, one can see this from a narrow or broad view.  Also, an economics teacher could use this site to look at how gas prices differ across the country, for example.
Overall I can see why this site was picked as a Web 2.0 Top 100 award winner.  With the many different options and the ease with which users can navigate this site, this site has my approval.