Just for my own personal amusement, I'm playing with the Google Maps Engine Lite today, and adding pins as the UPS package tracker updates my Solowheel delivery progress. Here's a direct link to the above map, which I will try to keep up-to-date.
The maps engine is pretty cool. It let me drop a bunch of pins, draw lines on the map, adjust the colors and labels, and share my map with either specific people, or with everyone. You can also collaborate with specific other people, or everyone, by giving them the ability to edit your map. And it's free!
One random observation: It's one kind of experience to wait for something without knowing where it is or when more info might become available, as in "we should have more units sometime in the next few weeks". It's another thing entirely to wait for something while fully informed. Even though I was given a delivery window up front, and this window looks like it will be met with a few days to spare, I'm much happier with the process now that UPS is updating me every step of the way!
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