From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Imagery update for Virtual Earth

June 25, 2008

While not nearly as big as their last update, Virtual Earth has about 20TB of new imagery now in place.  It includes quite a bit of new imagery in France, as well as various places around the world.  Sadly, it doesn’t appear that they’d added any more “version 2″ cities this month.  I’m dying to [...]

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Build and share collections with EarthSwoop

June 23, 2008

It’s time to roll out a site that a couple of us have been working on for the last few weeks — EarthSwoop! Bits and pieces of the code have been used in some of my other plug-in tools, but this takes it a step further. Using the Google Earth plug-in and a simple interface, [...]

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The top 5 ways to embed Google Earth content on your site

June 22, 2008

Now that the Google Earth plugin works in Firefox 3 (Windows-only still…), we thought we’d run through some of the best ways to embed Google Earth content on your site. 5. Embed existing files and collections from Google Earth Hacks Google Earth Hacks has over 20,000 files on their site, all of which can be [...]

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Google Earth plug-in now works in Firefox 3!

June 22, 2008

I didn’t expect to see it on a Sunday, but Google has updated the Google Earth plug-in to work with Firefox 3.  The cool thing is that you don’t even need to update the plug-in — some server-side tricks are what make it work. I haven’t seen an official announcement yet, but it was revealed [...]

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Popular Science has a series of articles about Google Earth

June 20, 2008

Popular Science is running a series of articles highlight various scientific visualizations using Google Earth.  Google Earth Blog has a great review of the series, along with KML files and links to other related stories. The five areas they cover are: The Volcano Tracker Storm Trooper Emotion Map Arctic Eye Flight of the Bird Flu [...]

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Very cool augmented reality program for Android

June 20, 2008

Google Maps Mania has just highlighted Enkin, a slick new augmented reality program that is being built for the Android platform. You’ve probably seen demos like this before, but this one sounds like it’s pretty much ready to launch.  The developers say that some Android hardware will have the necessary components built in (compass, GPS [...]

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Update to the Google Earth plug-in coming this week?

June 16, 2008

Firefox 3 is set to be released tomorrow, and Mozilla is hoping for five million downloads.  My concerns had been two-fold:  Firefox 3 breaks the Google Toolbar and the Google Earth Plug-in.  However, the toolbar has been updated today to work with FF3, but what about the plug-in? There has been no word from Google [...]

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More new 3D buildings in Google Earth

June 11, 2008

Google Earth Blog has revealed some extra 3D buildings that were recently added to Google Earth.  Some of the cities with new models are: San Diego, CA Chicago, IL Dallas, TX Sydney, Australia Tokyo, Japan ???????? Christchurch, New Zealand Since there wasn’t an official list provided, there may be more out there.  If you notice [...]

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Huge update to Google Maps StreetView

June 10, 2008

This is the update you’ve been waiting for!  Google Maps StreetView has been updated with a TON of new stuff. 37 new areas: MA: Springfield NY: Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse NJ: Newark VA: Virginia Beach NC: Charlotte, Winston-Salem SC: Columbia, Greenville GA: Atlanta FL: Boca Raton, Cape Coral, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Sarasota, West Palm Beach AL: [...]

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Public transportation now available on Google Maps Mobile

June 5, 2008

Google has just updated Google Maps Mobile to version 2.2.  The primary enhancement in this version is public transit — now you can get information on bus, train and ferry routes right from your mobile. You can download the application by visiting this link with your phone, or you can read more on the Google [...]

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