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 […]
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10 things that non-Diggers are wrong about
Reading Time: 4 min While the title says “non-Diggers”, this really applies to anyone who would visit this blog and say “what’s SEO stand for?” I find that very smart people are very confused about a wide array of technology-related items. Here are the 10 I hear most often: 10 — The Wii Remote needs to see the screen! […]
Amazing 3D recreation of Ancient Rome in Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 min Google is about to unveil a new layer for Google Earth that shows over 5700 3D buildings from the city of Rome, circa 320 AD. This is based at least in part from the model of the city we showed you last year from the University of Virginia. If nothing else, they’re both based off […]
Google Earth has arrived on the iPhone
Reading Time: < 1 min Somewhat out of the blue, though not totally unexpected after we saw EarthScape, Google Earth has been released for the iPhone! It’s still being rolled out (Australia and Japan can get it now), and it’s not available for my area yet. I’ll post more details once I get it. A little more info can be […]
Virtual Earth 6.2 released, with stunning clouds
Reading Time: < 1 min Virtual Earth 6.2 has been released, with a whole host of new features. Among them: New imagery — “Richer bird’s eye” and new 3D imagery, but I can’t find a list of what’s been updated. Weather integration — Real-time clouds (see more below) Localized maps — English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. Near-matching — Helps […]
Very cool 3D navigation product released
Reading Time: < 1 min A cool looking 3D navigation program called Navi2Go from 3DVU has just been released. It uses real world imagery and terrain and puts it in the palm of your hand as a GPS navigation device. It’s got the look and feel of Google Earth, with the usefulness of a TomTom. Of course, the usefulness of […]
Google to get imagery from new GeoEye satellite
Reading Time: < 1 min In just over five days, GeoEye is launching a new satellite and Google will be the exclusive online source for the imagery. Details of the agreement weren’t disclosed. The GeoEye-1 satellite will be able to capture imagery at a suberb detail level of 41 centimeters, though Google will have to convert to 50cm quality to […]
Track Fay using Google Maps
Reading Time: < 1 min Tropical Storm Fay is going to make landfall in Florida shortly, and there are a few sites that have excellent Google Maps tracking tools. IBISEYE – The best looking one I’ve seen, with some cool semi-transparent overlays StormAdvisory – A fairly vanilla map, but with some solid data behind it. Weather Underground – A similar […]
Kasatochi volcano in Alaska is erupting
Reading Time: < 1 min Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog has passed along a message from John Bailey of the Alaska Volcano Observatory regarding the Kasatochi volcano, which is erupting as we speak. According to John, the island is a bird sanctuary and two scientists were evacuated. He has sent along a time-lapse KML of the ash, which […]
Google’s Virtual World launches, and it’s Lively
Reading Time: < 1 min I agree with Google Maps Mania on this — I’m quite disappointed that it’s not built on top of Google Earth. However, it’s certainly a unique creation. Google has just launched Lively. It’s essentially Second Life, but with a million different worlds. You create a “room”, then embed it on your site. People can hop […]