From the monthly archives:

June 2007

Google Maps – Click and Drag Directions

June 29, 2007

This is really cool. Once you’ve created directions in Google Maps (via a new click interface), you can drag various parts of your route. Check out the video below for a brief demonstration:

More details can be found at the Google LatLong blog.

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Google Earth Sky

June 25, 2007

James Stafford (aka “Barnabu” at the Google Earth Community) has created a cool way to show a realistic sky in Google Earth. He’s written about it in his blog, and Frank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog has two posts about it as well.

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Update to the Google Earth 3D Buildings layer

June 21, 2007

Google has just pushed out their June update to the 3D buildings layer. Some cities with updates include Chicago, Christchurch (New Zealand), Karachi, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Moscow.
In addition, there is a big bug in this update. There is a building in western Turkey that looks like a normal house but is about [...]

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Cool new real-time lightning animation for GE

June 14, 2007

GuiWeather has just released a network link that shows current lightning strikes (well, within a few minutes old) around the world, in the form a slick 30 minute time-animated network link.
Google Earth Blog has the details.

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Complete 3D model of Rome, circa 320 A.D.

June 14, 2007

This is both amazingly cool and horribly frustrating. The Institute for the Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia has built a complete 3D model of the city of Rome as it was in 320 A.D. “Rome Reborn”, as it’s called, is astoundingly sharp and consists of billions of data points. FTA:
“To [...]

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Turning books into maps

June 14, 2007

Google Earth Blog has a write-up describing a technology that Google is working on to scan books, dig out the location information, then plot it in Google Earth. From there, you’ll be able to browse the locations from a book, or click a location and view the page where it was mentioned. Very [...]

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Problems with World Wind servers

June 12, 2007

Daniel Baker of Bull’s Rambles reports a growing problem with NASA’s World Wind servers.
As he says, the problem “seems to be getting worse”, but NASA is aware of the issue and they’re working hard to resolve it. In the meantime, you’re advised to set up a large cache and simply be patient.

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Some Virtual Earth drawing tools

June 11, 2007

Johannes Kebeck, Technology Specialist for Virtual Earth, has just released some drawing tools to make it easier to add lines and shapes inside of VE. You can find them here.
It’s shame that something as simple as drawing basic shapes in still such a chore in VE — even this solution requires a bunch of [...]

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Google Earth Hacks launches GEfootball

June 11, 2007

Google Earth Hacks has just posted Google Earth Football, a simple football game played inside of Google Earth.

Full write-up on the GEH blog.
Play the game.
Digg it.

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Google Maps now has all of the new imagery from Google Earth

June 10, 2007

The June 2nd imagery update for Google Earth is now available in Google Maps, including most of England as well as various other places around the world.
Google Earth blog has the details.

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