In which I gush about Google Maps

Even though the vernacular has acquired the word "mapquest" for use as a verb, I'd long since stopped using Mapquest in favor of Yahoo! Maps. The server response time was better, and there were fewer ads.

Now they're out of my life, too. Google Maps is now in beta, and it's slicker and easier to use than Yahoo! Maps ever was. All the usual features are there: multiple locations, driving directions, but they've also made it into a really slick draggable web interface, so you can navigate around town without clicking arrow buttons and without any page reloading and an astonishly fast response time. Of course, being Google, they also integrated it into their other services, so you can do local searches too: "hotels near 19401" or "golf". Check it out.