The new features are now available in your account! Let's take a deeper look, starting with Motion Charts.. That's right, all existing accounts now have access to several of the new enterprise-class features including Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reporting, Motion Charts, and the updated UI. (If your account is brand new, you may still have a short wait before you see…
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Guatemala City Sinkhole Location Found in Google Earth. A giant sinkhole (over 300 feet deep) swallowed homes and killed at least two teenagers early Friday. The disaster has been reported in the news (see MSNBC story) and apparently was caused by a clogged sewer main. There were recently rains in the area, and residents in the area had been feeling…
Global Lightning Animation for Google Earth. Received a tip from a GEB reader about some new weather data for Google Earth. The data comes from a web site called GuiWeather.com which predominantly is focused on providing global lightning data, but also has other GE weather tools. GuiWeather hopes to help people avoid lightning strike dangers by alerting them to nearby…
The Year 2008 in Google Earth. Google Earth had a great year in 2008 thanks to its continued growth in popularity, new features, and an enormous growth in new content both from Google and the people who use Google Earth. According to Google there have been over 400 Million unique installations of Google Earth since it was released in 2005.…
Burning Man 2007 in Google Earth. The guys from Pict'Earth (who offer image aquisition products and services) attended the Burning Man 2007 a couple of weeks ago. Burning Man is a huge outdoor art festival in the desert where tens of thousands of people camp in the desert and do strange things. During the event, they flew in a Cessna…
We are not alone on public data. I have lamented before the apparent lack of publicly released data in Australia for use in, say, Google Transit and similar services. Well, it turns out we are not alone. In Washington DC, talks have broken down between Google and the authorities. So the public data will not be so public. It seems,…
News Roundup: Flight Sim Tips, Clouds and Weather, KML 2.2, Google Solar Panels, Pollution. Flight Sim Tips - If you're looking for starting tips for the new flight simulator in Google Earth, check out my flight sim basic tips post. Also, at the bottom of the HUD guide post, there is a note about an advanced tip describing how to…
Alps Ski Information Layer in Google Earth. Over the weekend (I think) Google released a new layer under the Gallery->Travel & Tourism layer folder called "Ski Resorts in the Alps". The new layer was done by BergFex which provides ski information and reservation services. The new layer contains maps, current ski/snow conditions, and links to further descriptions, prices, lodging, and…
Glimpse of GPS Future in iPhone Hack. Navizon's iPhone application lets we iPhoners get a glimpse of the future, where we'll be able to retrieve our global coordinates as if we carried around a GPS (global positioning system) receiver or mobile adapter. Navizon Virtual GPS for iPhone uses the scan of Wi-Fi networks that the device constantly creates to retrieve…