They removed the annoying cloud over my apartment building. Kitchener/Waterloo also updated. Here’s a list of changes. I have no idea how official it is. Link courtesy this page (Google Maps Mania).

The site I got the link from links to Hong Kong, China. I’ve never looked at it before. It’s astounding. The uniformity of the construction; so many high-rises that are the same! The area of the city appears much smaller than the outrageous sprawl of Toronto, but it’s much higher density (6,352 /km² versus 2,718.29/km² for Toronto’s urban region—figures from Wikipedia).

Version 1 was OK, but not impressive enough to buy. Version 2 is a masterpiece. I ponied up the US$29.95 a few minutes ago. The Override engine on live web sites almost makes it worth it alone. X-Ray is the secret sauce. This is the app that had to be written. If you make web sites, you need this program. If you don’t have a Mac to run it on, well, you should know how I feel about that.

Now I have the tool I needed to make creating a real design for this site a practical and enjoyable possibility.