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Google Ocean

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 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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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”.
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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 Ocean coming soon?

April 30, 2008

According to an article on CNET News, Google is in the process of building a tool known as “Google Ocean” to map the terrain of the ocean floors. Similar to Google Earth and Maps, Ocean will provide the base data (depth mesh and some imagery), and allow users to populate it with data for [...]

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