From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Some good new KML tutorials from Google

October 30, 2007

The Google Earth Blog points us to a few new tutorials about using KML.
The first is all about time animations, including the London Eye and Frank Taylor’s Blue Marble.
The second deals with using KML in the Google Mashup Editor.
The full story in the Google Earth Blog goes into more detail explaining each of those KML [...]

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Answers to the latest imagery quiz

October 25, 2007

The Google Lat Long Blog has posted its answers to the most recent quiz. All in all, we did pretty well. The complete list of answers:
1. U.S. Route 91 turns into a much more famous stretch of road when it crosses into this town.
– Las Vegas (The Las Vegas Strip)
2. Every year, this city plays [...]

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Georgia Drought

October 24, 2007

I’ve just created a KMZ (and posted it on Google Earth Hacks) that highlights some of the newsworthy locations related to the Georgia Drought.
It includes placemarks for things like Buford Dam on Lake Lanier and the Farley Nuclear power plant in Alabama. It also includes an overlay showing the watershed areas for the area [...]

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A bunch of new imagery for Google Earth/Maps

October 23, 2007

(note: This data is only live in Google Earth, but will likely appear in Google Maps within a few days)
As has been the case lately, it comes in the form of a quiz. If you know an answer, post it in the comments below and we’ll see if we can figure them all out.
1- [...]

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California wildfires in Google Earth

October 23, 2007

Frank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog points us to an image overlay made using NOAA imagery of the fires in San Diego, California.
It really shows a significant amount of smoke coming from the fires. You can download the file here, or you can visit the Google Earth Blog for more information.

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Steve Irwin easter egg in Google Earth

October 18, 2007

Frank at the Google Earth Blog points us to a fun little easter egg in Google Earth – Steve Irwin (the late “Crocodile Hunter”) in front of the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
To find him, simply turn on the 3D buildings layer, search for “Sydney Opera House” and look near the water on the north [...]

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Google Maps with KML NetworkLink support!

October 17, 2007

I’ve been waiting for this. You can now supply a KML to Google Maps that contains a network link based on a view boundbox and it will work similar to how it does in Google Earth – with no editing needed!
They supply the examples of Panaramio, Placeopedia, Wikimapia and some others. I’ve whipped up some [...]

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More updates to Virtual Earth

October 16, 2007

Microsoft has just released a new version of Live Search Maps (named Gemini), as well as revealed a few more places that were updated in the past few days.
The new version has a lot of cool stuff:

1-Click Directions – Also known as “party maps”, this is a single permalink that you can send out, and [...]

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Another 10TB of new imagery in Virtual Earth

October 13, 2007

Microsoft continues their rapid, massive updates to Virtual Earth. This one totals 10TB (28TB worth of refreshed street map tiles) and it includes a ton of new Birds Eye View imagery.
The full list of areas updated:
UK

Aldershot
Newbury
Ayre
Warwick/Leamington
Telford
Mansfield
Blackburn/Darwen
Basingstoke/Basing
Burnley/Nelson
Cannock/Great Wyrley
Craigavon
Nuneaton
Redditch/Astwood
Abergele/Rhyl/Prestatyn
Weymouth

Worcester, MD
Orange, CT. (plus more CT)
Warren, NJ
Hunterdon, NJ
Cape May, NJ
Jackson, MS
Tulsa, OK
Reno, NV
Marion, OR
Fulton, NY
Northampton, PA
Albany Metro, NY
Henrico, [...]

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Zoom in closer in Google Maps

October 13, 2007

As posted on the Google LatLong Blog, you can now zoom in one step closer on Google Maps, world-wide!
They showed some cool examples, such as a Life-size Chess Board and some Elephants in Africa. I tried it on my house, and sure enough – it went in a bit tighter.
It doesn’t appear that there is [...]

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