From the monthly archives:

February 2009

New Google Earth imagery

February 28, 2009

As reported by Google Earth Blog, some new imagery seems to have arrived in Google Earth. Some of the updated areas include portions of:

Scotland
China
Africa
A few US states
South Korea
Mongolia
Iceland

You can get more details at GEB, and we’ll be updating this post with more locations as they become known.

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Panoramio photos arrive in StreetView

February 26, 2009

A new feature has arrived today for Google StreetView that allows you to browse Panoramio photos while in StreetView mode. As of now, this feature is available in big cities such as New York, San Francisco, Rome, Tokyo, etc.
You don’t need to do anything special to get your photos in there. These are taken from [...]

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Finally! The Google Earth Plug-in now works in Google Chrome

February 20, 2009

It was over five months ago that support for Chrome was “coming soon”, and it’s finally here — the Google Earth plug-in now works in Google Chrome.
You likely need the latest version of Chrome for it to work. To update, just click the wrench icon and choose “About Google Chrome”. The bottom line of that [...]

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Google releases “Latitude”

February 4, 2009

Google has just released a new mobile phone app called “Latitude” that helps you track down friends and family in real-time.
The app is currently available for Blackberry, S60 (Nokia N95, etc) and Windows Mobile. An Android app will be available in the next few days and it’ll be coming to the iPhone “very soon”.
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Microsoft releases massive imagery update for Virtual Earth

February 4, 2009

Virtual Earth has been quiet lately, but Microsoft has just released a TON of new imagery for it. No new features like Google Earth’s sweet update, and still no new 3D buildings, but the amount of imagery is quite impressive.
New Bird’s Eye imagery in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the UK and [...]

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Google Earth 5.0 is released — WOW

February 3, 2009

This is simply one of the biggest releases ever for Google Earth. Some of the goodies:

Historical Imagery: You can now activate a slider. I’ve seen a lot of imagery from the early 90’s, and there’s plenty from even before then. I’ve been very impressed with the quality of the older imagery. It’s mostly black and [...]

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