Oh, nasty little online maps.

Quick, I want you to head to your favorite online map service.

Now, look at the front of the Seattle Mind Camp ticket. Type this into your map service:

2811 102nd Street Seattle WA 98168

That’s the address of the Seattle Mind Camp. But, now, look at Google Maps and what it changed the address to:

2811 SW 102nd Street Seattle WA 98168

Buzz Bruggeman (CEO of ActiveWords) and I didn’t notice this yesterday when we first did it. Buzz was driving and stayed at my house. Guess what? That address is about five miles away from the real address.

Virtual Earth takes you to the right address.

Yahoo Maps beta takes you to the wrong place, but at least warns you that it didn’t find the right address.

Lots of people got mislead by the online maps, I learned after we arrived 20 minutes late.

What saved the day? Buzz had Streets and Trips loaded on his computer and that brought us to the right address.

But, other than that, the Mind Camp was great. Buzz and I stayed until about 10 p.m. Wireless was hard to get on, but I didn’t even try after the morning. The conversations were more interesting.

The Seattle PI’s Todd Bishop took good notes. The thing I came way from it? I need to get into Second Life and understand what’s going on there. Another thing I saw for the first time was Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Tara Hunt wrote that session up too. I want to create a virtual software company in that virtual world.

Other good reports are from Rob Stevens, Eric Butler, Nancy White, and Alex Barnett - more on “Mind Camp” on Technorati.

Andru Edwards organized the event. Well done Andru and team! Bunch of photos are over on Flickr. Update: more photos are on the “Mind Camp 1.0″ Tag on Flickr. Update2: I fixed that link, and Ted Leung has a great report on his blog here.