From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Google creates a more generic “Hurricane Season 2008″ layer

September 5, 2008

Either Google was listening to our suggestion, or it was just pretty obvious — they’ve replaced the “Gustav” layer with a more genric “Hurricane Season 2008″ layer, under which they list individual layers. The data isn’t overly comprehensive. It’s essentially just a forecast track for each storm and any advisories that have been put out [...]

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Some updates to Google Maps

September 4, 2008

We know that Google has added some new data for Georgia, but they’ve apparently updated a few other areas as well. New road maps: St Lucia Grenada Saint Kitts and Nevis Trinidad and Tobago Malta Mauritius Barbados Pakistan Israel New city names: Georgia Solomon Islands Faroe Islands Guam Cyprus Some other content: Madagascar If you [...]

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Google finally adds some data for Georgia

September 4, 2008

Google got hammered a few weeks ago when people realized that their data for Georgia was essentially blank, making it difficult for people to see the areas affected by their conflict with Russia. As promised, Google has started adding some nice data to the region. In addition to city labels, they have a whole bunch [...]

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Google Chrome and the Google Earth plug-in

September 2, 2008

As you’ve probably heard, Google released “Chrome” today, their new web browser. Thus far, I am very impressed with it — it’s amazingly fast. However, I can’t get it to work with the Google Earth plug-in. Considering that the browser is based on Webkit, and Safari didn’t yet work with the plug-in, it’s not a big [...]

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New Gustav layer in Google Earth

September 1, 2008

Google has just added a new sub-layer to the “weather” layer titled “Gustav Data”. This layer includes a variety of information about the storm, such as the latest advisories, webcams from around Louisiana and a forecast track. Coupled with the existing weather layers (clouds, radar, etc), it makes for some useful information. As Google points [...]

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