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‘Google Earth’ Archives
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.
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 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 [...]
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 the rise of the mashup? And when it comes to [...]
