Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle has just put up a post on their LatLong blog with some of their thoughts about privacy expectations in StreetView. It’s kind of a rambling post (paragraph break, anyone?) and there’s nothing too exciting in there, but here are some snippets: “…we designed a simple process for anyone to contact us and have their […]
Google Earth/Maps
3D Red Bull Air Races
Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle Earth Blog has a great post about some 3D models showing the Red Bull Air Races using time-lapse animations. They were created by Joey Wade over at the Keyhole BBS. A great suggestion from the post is to use the flight sim mode and try it yourself. I’ve not tried yet, but it can’t […]
Digital Globe launching first of two new satellites today
Reading Time: < 1 minAs reported on the Google Earth Blog, Digital Globe is launching a new satellite today, named WorldView I. A similar satellite, WorldView II, will be launching late next year. Digital Globe is a leading provider of imagery for Google Earth/Maps, so this is a great thing for those products. It will be a while before […]
Neat way to waste some time with Google Maps
Reading Time: < 1 minHere is an interesting take on the idea behind sites like Google Earthing. This one is called PlaceSpotting. It shows you a zoomed in map via Google Maps and you have to figure out where it is. A few cool things they’ve done, though: You solve it by adjusting a world map (zooming, panning, etc) […]
EPA chooses Virtual Earth
Reading Time: < 1 minThe Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. has a large number of geospacial apps for things such as oil spills, beach water quality, etc. Today they announced that they’ll be using Virtual Earth as the platform for these applications. The reasons for choosing Virtual Earth over Google Earth weren’t clear, but two things stuck out: […]
Making cool maps on your site with Google Maps
Reading Time: 4 minToday at Mt. Bethel we launched a Google Map that shows all of our upcoming events, with each one being clickable to the details for that event. Here I’ll explain how it was done. First, take a look at the source code on the map page. All we’ll do here is create an iframe to […]
Easily embed Google Maps on your site
Reading Time: < 1 minYou can now embed a Google Map on your site in a similar manner as a YouTube video, rather than having to deal with the API. For novice webmasters, this will likely become a very popular thing to have. Full details and screenshots can be found on Google Maps Mania.
Real-time traffic now in Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 minAs reported on the Google Latlong blog, Google Earth now has a new “traffic” layer which uses the same real-time traffic data that is used in Google Maps. It’s not especially fancy, but that’s probably a good thing. Sometimes simple is better. The traffic is shown as a series of dots along the highway. Green=fast, […]
Google Maps StreetView … in 1907?
Reading Time: < 1 minThis is a neat little find by Gadling. In 1907, Rand McNally produced some “Photo Auto-maps” that they gave to drivers, which included photos with arrows to show which way to go. The rest of their article has a few more pictures from it. Very cool.
Great collection of storm tracking and weather tools for Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 minFrank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog has posted a great round-up of the best weather-related tools for Google Earth. The best piece of this post is the huge weather and storm tracking tools collection network link. It contains a handful of folders with various kinds of data, which includes: two global hurricane tracking tools […]