For those interested in web geekery, Joel Webber looks at the HTML, graphics and XML behind Google Maps. Via Boing Boing.

Newsfactor’s Business Report has a short article on Google Maps that looks at it from, naturally, the business angle, i.e., how Google can monetize maps.

I originally posted this in the comments, but I’ll repost them here in case you missed it: Rafe Colburn and Aaron Swartz give their takes on Google Maps.