Just stunning images, with a story - Change. Watching a glacier in Columbia recede, or the systematic cultivation/de-forestation of the Amazon or even the growth of Melbourne is, at the very least fascinating. From Time Magazine's "Time Lapse" project: Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up.…
Category Archives Google Earth and Maps
New 3D Perspective in Maps API for Flash. Google has released a new "3D" perspective "mode" for Google Maps applications based on Flash. This gives a 3D-like experience to the 2D Google Maps (without the 3D terrain or 3D models from the Google Earth API). You can tilt and rotate the map and "fly" around Google Maps. One advantage to…
Announcing the new Google Local Business Center Dashboard. As a Google Analytics user, chances are you know the value of good data on traffic to your website. More data means you can make better-informed decisions about how to drive traffic to your site and to your brick-and-mortar locations. But your website is just a part of your entire web presence.…
Interact: Watch 24 Brilliant Hours of U.S. Flights. Artist Aaron Koblin layers flight patterns on a Google map representing air traffic across the United States over a 24-hour period. The map illustrates flight paths using color and animation for all the aircraft the FAA tracked on August 12, 2008. [Wired Top Stories]
I remember when a Pilot named Gary Powers became world news, along with his very very very secretive spy-plane. Now in 2009, we can just spot a spy plane from our home computer.... Bill Sometimes the satellite images Google acquires happen to capture some really unique sight. This one is really awesome for those of us who try to find…
Crisis in Darfur - The Google Effect. The new Crisis in Darfur layer, which was pushed out into Google Earth on Monday night (as first reported here), was formally announced on Tuesday in Washington, DC by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google. Google has featured this layer as a new default layer (turned on when you first bring up…
100% Pure New Zealand Layer in Google Earth. Buried in the new layers added to Google Earth on Monday, was a new sub-layer found under the Travel and Tourism layer. The new layer is the first example of a country getting a built-in GE layer celebrating the travel and tourist spots in Google Earth. The "100% Pure New Zealand" layer…
Super Mapping Mashup -> Globe Glider Next Generation. Google Earth Blog Exclusive: The new Globe Glider has finally been released. Globe Glider first came out over a year ago and allowed you to tie a Google Map to Google Earth in an integrated fashion. The new Globe Glider goes much further than last year's version. Now, not only can you…
Yahoo! Pipes Supports KML. Yahoo! has just announced they are now supporting interactive Yahoo! Maps and, even more significantly (IMHO), Google Earth's KML format. This means you can use the powerful Pipes graphical interface to create complex queries of various web sites and, if the query includes geospatial information, you can generate a map viewable in Google Earth (or other…