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.
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Stephen Chau, product manager for Google Maps, addresses Street View privacy issues
Reading Time: < 1 minFreakonomics has an interview with Stephen Chau, the product manager for Google Maps. Their questions all address the new Street View feature of Map. In the interview, Chau addresses some of the privacy concerns that have been raised. Some snippets: “At Google we take privacy very seriously. Street View only features imagery taken on public […]
Factory in Malaysia is offering ad space on its roof
Reading Time: < 1 minKumomo, a Malaysian company that owns a large factory, is offering up ad space that would be viewable in all of the various mapping systems (once the area gets updated again). They’ll be using a company in California, RoofAds, to do the installation. I imagine that we’ll be seeing quite a bit of this kind […]
JetBlue providing Google Maps in seatback TVs
Reading Time: < 1 minThe Google Lat Long Blog just announced that JetBlue is now providing fliers with Google Maps in their “signature seatback TVs”. On top of that, they’re asking customers to take pictures out the window during their flight, note the location with Google Maps, then send the pictures in. The top 10 photographers will win roundtrip […]
Maybe Google Earth really IS aiding terrorists
Reading Time: < 1 minThis story might end up getting blown way out of proportion… The Smoking Gun is reporting that one of the men arrested in the recent JFK airport terror plot had been using Google Earth to get details on the facility. Apparently the terrorists used Google Earth to share information about various physical aspects of the […]
Some other tidbits about Google Maps from last week.
Reading Time: < 1 minMike Pegg at Google Maps Mania just posted a short summary of new features in the Google Maps API that were revealed at the Google Developer Day last week. There are a number of items in there, but the main one I missed was the ability to add live traffic data to your API map. […]
Why did Google create Street View?
Reading Time: 2 minThe more I think about it, the more I question why Google spent so much time and money implementing “Street View”. Sure, it’s neat — but isn’t it just a temporary (and unnecessary) step? With the advancements in 3D buildings in Google Earth (and Virtual Earth, for that matter), making your own “Street View” of […]
The state of Google Maps
Reading Time: 2 minIt’s been quite a week for Google Maps. Where 2.0 and the Google Developer Day last week brought a flurry of new announcements. I’ll run through them all for you: Driving directions for the API You can now use driving directions on your API maps. Not only can you do full directions, but you can […]
The state of Virtual Earth
Reading Time: 2 minI thought I’d start things out on here by talking about some recent insights and improvements to each of the three main topics on this blog – Microsoft’s Virtual Earth, Google Maps and Google Earth. We’ll start with Virtual Earth. If you haven’t used it in a few months, you need to go check it […]