October 17th, 2007 by Jemaleddin Cole

I was brows­ing through the new Google Maps Street View cov­er­age in Chicago trying to find the places I remem­bered from my child­hood, and I real­ized that Google Maps needs some kind of “What the hell is that right there?” button.

For instance, I could swear that there was a gyro joint near the corner of Kedzie and Foster, but it appears to have been knocked down to build either a park­ing lot or some little drive through place that’s there now. But I can’t tell what the drive through thing is. Why can’t Google go through and label every­thing it has results for on the cur­rent map window?

5 Responses to “Google Maps Feature Request”

1. This is the place you are think­ing of:
   http://​chicago.​metro​mix.​com/​r​e​s​t​a​u​r​a​n​t​s​/​b​u​r​g​e​r​s​/​c​h​a​r​c​o​a​l​-​d​e​l​i​g​h​t​s​-​n​o​r​t​h​-​p​a​r​k​-​a​l​b​a​n​y​/​1​3​6​0​4​1​/​c​o​ntent

   But better gyros were avail­able at George’s on the corner of Foster and Sawyer.

   — skank October 17th, 2007 at 10:50 pm #

2. Yeah, I can make out the sign now that I know what it says. Good lookin’ out!

   They’ve cer­tainly had a makeover since I was a kid - it was basi­cally a shack back then.

   Not that it mat­ters what the gyros tasted like - I was way too chicken to eat things like that back then. Oh how I wish I could go back and slap some sense into my younger self. There I was, living in one of the great food towns of Amer­ica and too scared to indulge. For shame, Jemal. For shame.

   — Jemaleddin October 18th, 2007 at 6:31 am #

3. Just look to the future - pupusas, here we come! :)

   — CanadiensFan October 18th, 2007 at 7:13 am #

4. Good call - and I finally get to try the exotic cui­sine of “Le Hooters” on Sat­ur­day. I’m sure it will be great.

   — Jemaleddin October 18th, 2007 at 8:39 am #

5. We want picks! We want picks!

   — CanadiensFan October 20th, 2007 at 9:40 am #