Reading Time: < 1 min A few cool things to point you toward today: More Cities get “Aerial View” in Google Maps — Portland, OR and Sacramento and Oakland, CA all have new “bird’s eye” imagery from Google. National Geographic launches iPhone app — It allows a variety of mapping sources, styles and other cool stuff. Micello Launches “Google Maps […]
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A ghost town from space
Reading Time: 2 min 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 […]
Hybrid view coming to Virtual Earth’s Bird’s Eye imagery
Reading Time: < 1 min On April 10, Microsoft plans to release Virtual Earth version 6.1. Among the enhancements: Enhanced experiences with bird’s eye view in 3D, and new bird’s eye hybrid view. Reverse geocoding for U.S. users. Walking directions for North America and European Union users. Traffic-based driving directions. New cross-browser support. Improved printing support for maps. That’s quite […]