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October 2007

YouTube videos now a layer in Google Earth

October 11, 2007

As reported by the Google Earth Blog, there is now a new layer in Google Earth for geotagged YouTube videos.  In the Windows version of GE the videos appear right in the description bubbles; in the Mac and Linux versions you get a link to view the video in a browser. It works like most [...]

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10 best new features in Google Earth since its release

October 10, 2007

When Google Earth was first released, there was talk about it everywhere and they were overwhelmed with downloads. Since then, it’s become more and more popular. However, I’m sure there are a lot of folks that downloaded it two years ago, checked it out a little bit, and then haven’t gone back in. Here’s what [...]

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1,000 posts in GEboards

October 10, 2007

It only took a single week to have over 1,000 posts appear on GEboards.  That was quick! Some cities are already looking nicely annotated.  How’s yours?

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More StreetView cities added

October 9, 2007

Google has released StreetView data for a bunch of new cities:  Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Tucson.  Phoenix, Tucson and parts of Chicago are even high-res. They’ve also added the ability to pan up in many cities.  The image at the top of this post is of the Sears Tower. More info at the [...]

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The official answers to Google’s latest quiz

October 6, 2007

The Google Latlong blog has posted the answers to Google’s latest imagery release quiz. It appears that Frank and company at the Google Earth Blog did a pretty good job. Check out the answers (with some screenshots).

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Updates to Google Earth imagery

October 2, 2007

As reported in the Google LatLong Blog, a “significant” amount of 60cm imagery has been added to Google Earth, with the Google Maps update coming soon. As they did with the July update, most of what has been updated is hidden in clues. Frank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog already has many of the [...]

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The first fully in-Earth message board

October 2, 2007

Over on Google Earth Hacks we’ve just released GEboards, a completely in-Earth message board. Following the release of Google Earth version 4.2, we realized that we could use the Flash player to accept text input in Google Earth.  Many lines of code later, we have GEboards. Once you load the KML, you can create threads [...]

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