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September 2008

Google Earth Hacks mobile and The Amazing Race 13

September 28, 2008

A couple of fun toys for today.  I’ve created a mobile version of Google Earth Hacks, allowing you to view about 80% of the files (18,000 or so) on the go.  It works best on the iPhone, taking advantage of the built-in Google Maps, but should work on any recent phone.  Get details here, or [...]

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Virtual Earth 6.2 released, with stunning clouds

September 25, 2008

Virtual Earth 6.2 has been released, with a whole host of new features.  Among them:

New imagery —  ”Richer bird’s eye” and new 3D imagery, but I can’t find a list of what’s been updated.
Weather integration — Real-time clouds (see more below)
Localized maps — English, German, French, Italian and Spanish.
Near-matching — Helps find locations with alternate [...]

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MapQuest 4 Mobile now available for Blackberry

September 19, 2008

MapQuest has just launched the beta of MapQuest 4 Mobile for a few Blackberry handsets.  It looks very much like all of MapQuest’s other recent launches — very nice, but nothing new.
Some of the features include things like “maps” (including aerial imagery), “directions”, “search”, “traffic” and “find me” (to track you along a route.  Certainly [...]

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Virtual Earth update time

September 18, 2008

Just a few days ago I mentioned that I hadn’t seen an imagery update for Virtual Earth in a while, and now we have one.
This one reportedly has a staggering 48TB worth of imagery, but doesn’t cover that many places.  The list:
Orthos

Yakima, WA
Springfield, MO
Spokane, WA
Portland, ME
Grand Rapids, MI
Billings, MT
Minneapolis, MN (UltraCam Refresh)
Seattle, WA (UltraCam Refresh)
Las [...]

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Google Maps Mobile gets StreetView

September 17, 2008

StreetView has come to Google Maps Mobile! This should prove to be a very useful addition, since many people use GMM when trying to find a location.  Having a street-level view of their destination will be great!
In addition to StreetView, the mobile versions now have walking directions and business reviews as well.
The software is available [...]

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The energy costs of Hurricane Ike

September 12, 2008

Brian Timoney has made some nice updates to GulfImpact.com ahead of Hurricane Ike.  Not only does it give you the location and path of the storm, but it shows all of the affected oil wells in the Gulf, broken down by company.  He uses Virtual Earth to power it.
I’ve heard a lot of news stories [...]

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Virtual Earth map control 6.2 coming in a few weeks

September 10, 2008

According to Nate Irwin, version 6.2 of the Virtual Earth map control is coming on September 22nd.  This new map control brings a lot of great features to the table, including landmark-based directions and real-time weather in 3D.
Here’s my big question, though — where’s the new imagery?  Unless I’ve missed something, they haven’t added any [...]

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Details on the Google Earth imagery update

September 9, 2008

We reported a few days ago about the imagery update for Google Earth, and now they’ve released details about exactly what has been updated:
Americas:

USA: Chicago, Houston, Tampa, Nassau County (NY), Westchester County (NY), Rockland County (NY), Putnam County (NY), Rensselaer County, Albany County (NY), Schenectady County (NY), SaratogaCounty (NY), Tompkins County (NY), Schuyler County (NY), [...]

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Very cool 3D navigation product released

September 6, 2008

A cool looking 3D navigation program called Navi2Go from 3DVU has just been released.  It uses real world imagery and terrain and puts it in the palm of your hand as a GPS navigation device.  It’s got the look and feel of Google Earth, with the usefulness of a TomTom.
Of course, the usefulness of a [...]

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Major imagery update for Google Earth

September 5, 2008

It appears that Google Earth has just received a major imagery update.  There is no official word from Google yet, but Google Earth Blog is reporting a wide variety of updates.  They include:
 

US: Houston, TX — West Virginia — East Massachusetts — Albany, NY
Areas of Australia
Turkey
Paris, France
Near Toronto, Canada
Parts of Italy
Parts of Switzerland

Frank is keeping [...]

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