MappingService: Maps in a flash in any app
I am a big fan of Services in Mac OS X, especially of the way that they speed me up in Mail and elsewhere.
While plugins already exist to give you access to maps for contacts in your Address Book, today Robert Stainsby released a Service that makes Google Maps and ZoomIn Australia and New Zealand maps available for the text of any address that you select in any app.
Tonight I was reading a PDF about a meeting tomorrow.
With this Service installed, all I had to do was select the text of the address in the PDF, and then select the mapping service from the Services menu:
It switches to my browser and open a map (in this case) from ZoomIn Australia that shows me exactly where I need to go:
Very nifty. I’ll can see myself using this a lot.
MappingService is donation-ware and can be downloaded from Robert’s web site 
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May 28th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
What amazes me is that 767 Fifth Avenue, New York, maps to Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC. Is this a bug? ;-)
May 28th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Hmmmm… ZoomIn Australia maps that address to outback WA for me, although Google maps gets it right.
What is that that address in New York? KAOS?