From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Google to get imagery from new GeoEye satellite

August 29, 2008

In just over five days, GeoEye is launching a new satellite and Google will be the exclusive online source for the imagery.  Details of the agreement weren’t disclosed. The GeoEye-1 satellite will be able to capture imagery at a suberb detail level of 41 centimeters, though Google will have to convert to 50cm quality to [...]

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MapQuest is trying hard to hold on

August 26, 2008

Despite being far behind in features, MapQuest has been remarkably resilient in holding onto their market share.  Google Maps continues to catch up, but is still below half of the market share that MapQuest is holding. However, MapQuest continues to try to catch back up.  Today they’ve released a new beta version of their site, [...]

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Earthscape for iPhone reviewed

August 22, 2008

A few months back, Google Earth Blog revealed a slick new iPhone application coming called Earthscape.  The application is a Google Earth-like program that runs on your iPhone.  It costs $9.99 in the iTunes app store (get it here). One disappointment is that it’s not yet using the accelerometer to control movement — it’s all [...]

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Track Fay using Google Maps

August 18, 2008

Tropical Storm Fay is going to make landfall in Florida shortly, and there are a few sites that have excellent Google Maps tracking tools. IBISEYE – The best looking one I’ve seen, with some cool semi-transparent overlays StormAdvisory – A fairly vanilla map, but with some solid data behind it. Weather Underground – A similar [...]

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Sorry so quiet…

August 15, 2008

I’ve been guest posting for the last few days on the Google Earth Blog while Frank has been out of town, which has left me with rather little time (and content) to post on here.  I’ll be back posting again soon, but here’s what I’ve posted on GEB in case you missed it: August 12 [...]

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Potentially a mind-blowing development, but it’s still vaporware

August 11, 2008

LivePlace.com has just released a video showing a new product they’re developing called “City Space”.  Wow! City Space is a 3D world, somewhat similar to Second Life.  Users can create any content they want, and the world is persistent for others in the future (changes you make to the world will remain there).  The “wow” [...]

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Various privacy complaints about StreetView in Australia

August 11, 2008

The Daily Mail has published an article today with a variety of complaints that people have aired against the new StreetView imagery in Australia. The first one is quite interesting.  A guy lost his best friend in a boating accident, and drunk himself stupid to dull the pain.  When he got home, he collapsed on [...]

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Kasatochi volcano in Alaska is erupting

August 8, 2008

Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog has passed along a message from John Bailey of the Alaska Volcano Observatory regarding the Kasatochi volcano, which is erupting as we speak. According to John, the island is a bird sanctuary and two scientists were evacuated.  He has sent along a time-lapse KML of the ash, which [...]

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Not done with the StreetView updates…

August 4, 2008

I thought it was just Australia and Japan, but I was wrong.  According to the Google LatLong blog, a bunch of US cities have been added as well. The LatLong blog lists a few of them, but the full list seems to be (based on a comment at Google Maps Mania): Eureka, CA Lancaster / [...]

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Japan is live in Streetview, too!

August 4, 2008

To go along with the Australia release that we mentioned earlier, StreetView is now available in Japan as well. Still no official word from Google about the releases, but Google Maps Mania covers them both pretty well (list of cities, examples, etc). Go play!

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