From the monthly archives:

April 2009

More fresh imagery for Virtual Earth

April 29, 2009

Another imagery update for Virtual Earth.  They’ve still not released any new 3D “version 2″ cities (WHY??), but they keep pushing new imagery out at a good pace.
This update covers “only” 9TB of data, but they brag that it covers over 1 million square kilometers of Earth.  That sounds nice, but I wonder how it [...]

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Google Ocean comes to the Great Lakes

April 14, 2009

I was wondering if Google would be adding their “ocean” features to other bodies of water, and it turns out they are!  You can now dive into the five Great Lakes just as you can with the oceans.
From the LatLong Blog:
Users will be able to explore features such as the canyons and shoals in eastern [...]

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Google Earth imagery update

April 11, 2009

Google has just pushed out an imagery update, though the extent of it is still unknown.  According to Google Earth Blog, the following areas have been updated:

United States – Broad coverage in in about a dozen states that used to have low-res imagery.
India – Re-colorized, so it looks much better from way up high.
France – [...]

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StreetView now in full-screen

April 9, 2009

This certainly makes StreetView even better — full screen mode!  When viewing anything in StreetView, simply click the small grey icon in the upper-right corner (next to the “x”) and it will go full screen.
There’s really not much else to say but go look at it yourself.  Go check out the Golden Gate Bridge, the [...]

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Mob of people run Google StreetView car out of town

April 3, 2009

There’s some confused people in Broughton, a Buckinghamshire village.  According to the Timesonline casino:
So when the Google Street View car trundled towards Broughton with a 360-degree camera on its roof, villagers sprang into action. Forming a human chain to stop it, they harangued the driver about the “invasion of privacy”, adding that the images that [...]

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