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Google Earth Buildings just got Smarter!
You can now find information about buildings in Google Earth's 3-D view. Simply click on the building and you will find links, text, and pictures about the building.
A little Google Earth halloween fun
The Google Earth blog posted about how you can turn your google earth experience into this special halloween edition. Download this kmz file and open it up in Google Earth. You'll see the earth in a whole new way.
Leveraging Google Earth to Find Your Way in ArcMap
One difficult task for me in ArcMap is finding an intersection of two roads. Much of my work is in the state of New Jersey and often times I’m asked to map a new site location from as little as an address or intersection. The NJDOT has a terrific roads layer, however it is difficult to search the entire data set. Many roads throughout [...]
Tour de France gets Google Street View
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 a course map PDF is found HERE. I'm not sure if the street view [...]
Google releases API for browser-based Google Earth
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.
Kentucky HS Student wins regional Google contest
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 Kentucky High School students [...]
Google and ESRI Announcement at Where 2.0 Conference
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 becoming part of the mainstream of [...]
Google Getting Sued over “Street View”
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 a method for the [...]
Nashville gets Google Street View
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 window has 360 degree pan features. By clicking along [...]
Google offers 3D Services to Small Cities – FREE too
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 will have [...]
