Reading Time: 2 minI’m finding more and more sites lately that are using Virtual Earth as their on-site mapping program. The latest is Bank of America (via the VE dev blog). It’s got a unique issue in that it claims to require that you enter your City, State and ZIP, but it appears that ZIP-only will work (as […]
Google Earth/Maps
Google Maps – Click and Drag Directions
Reading Time: < 1 minThis is really cool. Once you’ve created directions in Google Maps (via a new click interface), you can drag various parts of your route. Check out the video below for a brief demonstration: More details can be found at the Google LatLong blog.
Google Earth Sky
Reading Time: < 1 minJames Stafford (aka “Barnabu” at the Google Earth Community) has created a cool way to show a realistic sky in Google Earth. He’s written about it in his blog, and Frank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog has two posts about it as well.
Update to the Google Earth 3D Buildings layer
Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle has just pushed out their June update to the 3D buildings layer. Some cities with updates include Chicago, Christchurch (New Zealand), Karachi, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Moscow. In addition, there is a big bug in this update. There is a building in western Turkey that looks like a normal house but is about 11 […]
Cool new real-time lightning animation for GE
Reading Time: < 1 minGuiWeather has just released a network link that shows current lightning strikes (well, within a few minutes old) around the world, in the form a slick 30 minute time-animated network link. Google Earth Blog has the details.
Complete 3D model of Rome, circa 320 A.D.
Reading Time: < 1 minThis is both amazingly cool and horribly frustrating. The Institute for the Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia has built a complete 3D model of the city of Rome as it was in 320 A.D. “Rome Reborn”, as it’s called, is astoundingly sharp and consists of billions of data points. FTA: […]
Turning books into maps
Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle Earth Blog has a write-up describing a technology that Google is working on to scan books, dig out the location information, then plot it in Google Earth. From there, you’ll be able to browse the locations from a book, or click a location and view the page where it was mentioned. Very cool!
Some Virtual Earth drawing tools
Reading Time: < 1 minJohannes Kebeck, Technology Specialist for Virtual Earth, has just released some drawing tools to make it easier to add lines and shapes inside of VE. You can find them here. It’s shame that something as simple as drawing basic shapes in still such a chore in VE — even this solution requires a bunch of […]
Google Maps now has all of the new imagery from Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 minThe June 2nd imagery update for Google Earth is now available in Google Maps, including most of England as well as various other places around the world. Google Earth blog has the details.
Details about the new 10m Terrain area in Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 minFrank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog has just posted a file that shows exactly which areas of the western US are now covered by the 10m 3D terrain. As he suggests, you really need to head out there, turn your terrain detail up pretty high and enjoy the view!