Today's press release highlights yet another organization snuggling up to Google for "its" maps. The cover of Backpacker, at one time my favorite print pub, is adorned with a Google Earth image near Going to the Sun Mountain in Glacier National Park. (Yep, been there. Awesome park.) The image helps introduce a whole "package" (the publication's term) on using technology for planning, executing and documenting trips electronically. That package is called "iHike."

I was disappointed:

(1) You can't see the cover image online.
(2) The release suggests Google is behind the images/data rather than the providers:

"The quality of Google's images--from the topography contours to the rich colors to the fine detail in the rock and snow--made our June cover an amazingly realistic representation of the mountain we selected."