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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Directions Mag poll on what you’d like to learn

If you didn’t have to pay for it, that is. The poll asked:
If you could take one course for free (and had time to study!) what type of course would you choose?
Just under 300 responded to it. Programming tops the list? What does that tell you about the one-size-fits-all out of the box applications and [...]