From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Some new 3D goodness in Google Earth

January 30, 2009

A couple of interesting 3D updates in the past few days.
First we have the Vancouver update. They added 1400 textured 3D buildings to the city and it looks great.  According to the Google Earth Blog, they also expanded 3D coverage in New York City, Portland and Seattle.
Another post from the Google Earth Blog involves the [...]

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Big update to Google Earth coming in 8 days?

January 25, 2009

According to a few sources, Google is releasing a new version of Google Earth at the California Academy of Sciences on February 2nd.  Because the location of the event happens to be an aquarium, planetarium and natural history museum, that’s leading many to think that we may finally see the long-rumored “Google Ocean”.
It would be [...]

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A new StreetView-like service for Central Europe

January 24, 2009

As reported by Google Maps Mania, Norc has just launched a StreetView-like service for a handful of countries in Europe.  They use the Google Maps API to power their product, then drop in a bunch of interactive panoramic images.  You can’t move up up down streets quite as easily, but they provide small arrows in [...]

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Satellite image of the inauguration crowds today

January 21, 2009

GeoEye made quick work of posting an image from Barack Obama’s Inauguration today.  As promised, they snapped a photo at 11:19am and had it posted by this afternoon.  The photo does a great job of capturing the mass of people that were in Washington.  It was very interesting to see the the crowds formed — [...]

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New imagery in Washington, DC – Just in time for the Inauguration

January 18, 2009

мебелиTwo days before Tuesday’s Inauguration of Barack Obama, Google has updated the imagery in the Washington, DC area.  According to the Google Earth Blog, the imagery for the White House and Capitol building are still from 2002, but much of the imagery in the area is dated 2008.
In addition, some of the censorship has been [...]

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New Ocean Imagery in Google Earth

January 17, 2009

Google has just pushed some new imagery to Google Earth that shows much higher quality data for all of the oceans of the world.  The data sadly isn’t 3D yet, but it’s certainly much better.  It makes viewing the globe from high altitudes look much better.  It’s not as in-depth as the rumored “Google Ocean” [...]

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Google Transit Layer launched for 50 cities worldwide

January 14, 2009

Google has just announced the release fo the transit layer for 50 cities worldwide.  Google Transit has been around for a while, but this actually overlays the transit lines on the map.
As the Google LatLong blog says, using this in combination with hotels and/or restaurants can make life much easier when you’re visiting a city.
For [...]

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Digital Earth products with Windows 7

January 10, 2009

I downloaded Windows 7 on my laptop tonight (dual boot with XP) and started testing the various digital earth products.  So far, so good!
Google Earth went without a hitch.  It runs very well, too!
The Google Earth plug-in worked perfectly as well.
Google Maps worked, as did StreetView.
Virtual Earth installed flawlessly and worked briefly, then locked up [...]

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