From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Major update to Google Maps, primarly with StreetView

November 26, 2008

Hot on the heels of its arrival on the iPhone, the web interface of Google Maps has just received a major overhaul.  In particular, the handling of StreetView is much different. Google Maps Mania has a great overview of the changes, as does the video below.  Check it out!

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StreetView comes to the iPhone

November 21, 2008

As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the new firmware update today for the iPhone (version 2.2) includes Google StreetView.  I’m still loading the update on my phone, but I’m expecting good things.  As with Google Earth for the iPhone, I would think that the multi-touch input will work very well with StreetView.  We’ll see. [...]

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Google releases SketchUp 7

November 17, 2008

Google has just released version 7 of SketchUp, their excellent 3D modelling tool.  They’ve added a variety of tools at both ends of their userbase — it’s easier to get started, but it’s also more powerful for their advanced users.  Here’s a short video showing some of the new features: For more information about this [...]

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A few new 3D cities in Google Earth

November 14, 2008

As reported by the Google Earth Blog, there are a few new 3D cities in Google Earth — Pittsburgh, PA and Seattle, WA.  There may be others, but those are the two that have been found so far. I’ll keep poking around see if any other cities have fresh 3D imagery in them.  Here’s a [...]

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Amazing 3D recreation of Ancient Rome in Google Earth

November 12, 2008

Google is about to unveil a new layer for Google Earth that shows over 5700 3D buildings from the city of Rome, circa 320 AD.  This is based at least in part from the model of the city we showed you last year from the University of Virginia.  If nothing else, they’re both based off [...]

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MapQuest adds more new (old) features

November 7, 2008

As their lead over Google Maps continues to dwindle, MapQuest has rolled out a few more new features.  By “new”, I mean new to MapQuest, not new to online mapping. In this case, the new feature is draggable route changing.  This is almost identical to the feature that Google released about 16 months ago. It’s [...]

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Huge imagery release for Virtual Earth

November 6, 2008

Microsoft has rolled out another enormous imagery release for Virtual Earth.  Details can be found here, but the quick version includes: Orthos   Spain Japan Obliques (Bird’s Eye) United States Japan Australia Canada United Kingdom Germany Austria Luxembourg Sadly, once again, there doesn’t appear to be any new 3D buildings.  C’mon Microsoft — those “version [...]

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StreetView released for Washington DC, Seattle and Baltimore

November 4, 2008

Very timely.  On election day here in the US, Google has released StreetView for Washington, DC, along with Seattle, WA and Baltimore, MD. The Google Earth Blog has a nice write-up about the new coverage and we’ll post our finds in the GEH StreetView database as we come across noteworthy locations.  A few already submitted [...]

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