From the monthly archives:

August 2007

A whole bunch of fresh images for Virtual Earth

August 29, 2007

Microsoft is adding data at quite an incredible rate (their previous update was less than two weeks ago).  Here’s a list of what’s imagery has just been updated:
USA Hi-Res Orthos (aka Aerial and Hybrid)
- 2006 Central Florida
- 2006 Buelton, CA
- 2006 Lancaster, CA
- 2006 Madera, CA
- 2006 Santa Maria, CA
- 2006 California City, CA
- 2006 [...]

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Easily embed Google Maps on your site

August 22, 2007

You can now embed a Google Map on your site in a similar manner as a YouTube video, rather than having to deal with the API.  For novice webmasters, this will likely become a very popular thing to have.
Full details and screenshots can be found on Google Maps Mania.

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Real-time traffic now in Google Earth

August 21, 2007

As reported on the Google Latlong blog, Google Earth now has a new “traffic” layer which uses the same real-time traffic data that is used in Google Maps.
It’s not especially fancy, but that’s probably a good thing.  Sometimes simple is better.  The traffic is shown as a series of dots along the highway.  Green=fast, yellow=ok, [...]

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Google Maps StreetView … in 1907?

August 17, 2007

This is a neat little find by Gadling.  In 1907, Rand McNally produced some “Photo Auto-maps” that they gave to drivers, which included photos with arrows to show which way to go.
The rest of their article has a few more pictures from it.   Very cool.

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Great collection of storm tracking and weather tools for Google Earth

August 16, 2007

Frank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog has posted a great round-up of the best weather-related tools for Google Earth.
The best piece of this post is the huge weather and storm tracking tools collection network link.  It contains a handful of folders with various kinds of data, which includes:

two global hurricane tracking tools
global cloud maps
current [...]

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Virtual Earth Imagery Update

August 16, 2007

As per the Virtual Earth for Government blog, a lot of new bird’s eye imagery and a few new 3D city models have been released.  The 3D cities are Montreal, Canada and Toulouse, France.  The new Bird’s Eye imagery is in hundreds of cities; the full list can be found here.

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More cities added to Google Maps Street View

August 7, 2007

As posted on the Google LatLong Blog, four new cities have been given the Street View treatment.
They are:

San Diego
Los Angeles
Houston
Orlando

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Hamburg 3D now in a layer

August 3, 2007

As reported by Ogle Earth, the amazing 3D buildings in Hamburg are now in the buildings layer of Google Earth.
Stefan says, “You will need a graphics card from the future — unless you are really close in, flying around Hamburg is done at extremely low fps… more like fpm”.  This will become more of an [...]

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Tools for those affected by the I-35W bridge collapse

August 3, 2007

The Google LatLong Blog has posted a few links with resources to help people with the aftermath of the bridge collapse.
Here are a bunch of maps with photos, news articles, meeting point locations, contact information for nearby hospitals and prayer service schedules.
Here is information about road closures and detours.
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Google Maps now gives estimated rush hour drive times

August 1, 2007

This is pretty slick — Google Maps will now give you multiple estimated times for trips that you plan (in “a limited set of metropolitan areas”).
Their example has someone traveling from Berkeley to Half Moon Bay, which is “about 59 minutes”.  However, the directions also say that it could take “up to 1 hour [...]

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