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Japanese StreetView is facing a variety of complaints

September 7, 2009

The Japanese version of Google StreetView is facing an increasingly higher number of complaints, about a variety of topics.  Along with the usual complaints (faces, license plates), there is the issue of people using the images on secondary sites for the purposes of discrimination and bullying. To help combat this, Google has set up a [...]

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College Football, Monopoly and Towson University

September 4, 2009

A handful of cool things today: College Football Stadiums: The Google LatLong blog has posted a KML that flies you to all of the NCAA football stadiums — 246 in all!  You can read about the file on their site, or download the KML here.  I did something similar on EarthSwoop last year and built [...]

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Google ties business listings to StreetView

August 27, 2009

Google has just released a nice evolutionary trait to Google Maps — linking businesses to StreetView. When searching for a business in Google Maps, you’ll now often see a link for “StreetView” in the description bubble.  Clicking that takes you to a StreetView of that location.  When in StreetView, you’ll see the familiar red placemark [...]

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Nessie found in Google Earth?

August 26, 2009

The Sun is at it again.  First they claimed to have found the lost city of Atlantis in Google Earth, now they think they’ve found the Loch Ness Monster.  Or maybe it’s a boat. It’s obvious they’re just trying to (successfully) draw attention to their site, but they sure look stupid.  I love the response [...]

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Improved traffic info on Google Maps: See the side streets and contribute

August 25, 2009

Google has just announced that arterial traffic is now available on Google Maps.  I’ve noticed more and more roads showing traffic data over the past few months, but today seems to be the day of the big announcement.  In fact, there are certainly more roads in my area with traffic data, which could be very [...]

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A ghost town from space

August 24, 2009

Earth is Square has a neat post today about viewing Centralia, Pennsylanvia using fresh Bird’s Eye imagery on Bing Maps.  Centralia was an active town of about 1000 residents back in the early 1980′s, but now is home to only nine people.  The reason is due to an underground coal fire that’s been burning since [...]

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Swiss want StreetView Disabled

August 23, 2009

It’s only been up for a few days, but the Switzerland Data Protection office is asking Google to remove the StreetView imagery they’ve shot in the country.  Their primary concern seems to be that “many faces and vehicle number plates had not been covered up or were insufficiently blurred”.  If memory serves, that’s not even [...]

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New StreetView and 3D cities released

August 17, 2009

It’s been a busy day for Google.  Earlier in the day they unveiled Helsinki, Finland in 3D, and the coverage is quite comprehensive.  Google Earth Blog has the details. Also, as pointed out by Google Maps Mania, StreetView imagery has been released for a few countries.  This update includes a few major cities in Portugal [...]

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Google launches new StreetView site

August 4, 2009

To help people better understand how StreetView works, Google has launched a new site that has a lot of information about the service.  The site explains how they collect the imagery, how long it takes to process it, the areas of the world that are covered, etc. It’s probably not overly exciting for most readers [...]

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New “Smart Navigation” in StreetView

June 4, 2009

Google has just released a new feature for StreetView that looks pretty simple, but it actually quite complex and intuitive.  When viewing anything in StreetView, you’ll notice your is in the shape of an oval or a rectangle.  When it’s an oval, you can double-click to quickly move to that location. When it’s a rectangle [...]

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