Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Theron Hatch
The Tour de France is on and so is street view for the course. This year you can see the course using Google’s Street View technology. This LINK connects you to the traditional Google Maps site showing where street view is available over the course. The tour website is HERE. And [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Theron Hatch
This is pretty cool stuff. Now get Google Earth inside your browser. There is a full API and SDK for developers.
Get the plugin here.
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Theron Hatch
Google has been soliciting artwork for its homepage through its Doodle 4 Google competition. The competition ended with winners selected from among 16,000 entrants from across the US. Lynn Camp High School senior Cherry Rose was selected as 1st place regional winner, among a six state region, and the best among [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Theron Hatch
Picked up portions of this from All Points Blog today. Where 2.0 is a conference dedicated to “neographers”, that new breed of mappers that are using free and open source map technology to develop some fairly advanced and easy to use maps (for the most part). No longer a fringe group, neogeographers are [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Neill Jobe
Invasion of Privacy! claims a Pennsylvania couple after filing a 10 page lawsuit with the Search Engine Giant. The couple claims their privacy was invaded when the Google “Streetview” vehicle took a picture, up their long driveway, while there was a posted “Private Road” sign at the end of the driveway. Google’s defense, they have [...]
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Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Theron Hatch
Nashville just got hooked up with Street View imagery on Google Maps. Zoom in to Nashville, click on the Street View link. Imagery is available for any street with blue highlights. Move the little stick figure guy around and then click to view street level imagery of the area. The image [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2008 by Theron Hatch
Google announced yesterday the launch of a new tool that will dramatically change the virtual landscape of the company’s Google Earth product. Cities in 3D is the latest of several free offerings from Google designed to encourage content sharing — this time, people in small to medium-size cities across the nation and around the world [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Theron Hatch
Found this Valentine’s Day Mashup from Google maps API Blog. With it you can create a 10,000 ft view engraving of your own personal sweet nothing to your favorite someone. It looks cool and tacky enough that I’m sure those not inclined to flowers and chocolates will find it a great alternative. [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Theron Hatch
As of Noon today, Jared’s Tornado map has reached over 6500 views. Most hits are coming from the News 2 Weather site. Jared is adding to it regularly. President Bush visited the area earlier today.
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Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Neill Jobe
I found this link for a Google Map by the user-name of “Jared” (no Google profile yet created). It seems as though Jared is keeping track of last Tuesday night’s tornado destruction, American Red Cross shelters, deaths, News Stories, etc. on his Google “My Maps”. I am unsure at this point if ”Jared” is keeping this map up-to-date as more and [...]
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