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This week, we’ve started to feature another layer in the Google Earth Gallery, showing several thousand panoramic views provided by 360cities.net. This layer contains exciting 360 degree panoramas from a variety of great photographs taken all over the world! This screengrab is from the Synagogue of Dohány Street in Budapest, which does NOT do justice to [...]
Prague-based virtual panorama company 360 Cities is offering its entire collection of nearly 10,000 spherical images on Google Earth. Head to the "Featured Preview" layer in the 3D tool to enable 360 Cities, then just click to scan around and gawk. [ via ]
This is rather cool: Enobytes has put together a small compilation of wine regions that you can visit using Google Earth. No related posts. No related posts.
Who would dare challenge Google, the superman of the Internet age? India, that's who. Fresh off the high of its recent lunar achievements , India is taking on the powerful Internet search company on a playing field a little closer to home: Google Earth. The Indian Based Research Organization (ISRO) plans to launch its Web-based mapping system, Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), by spring. The data comes...
It's a Friday, so I thought I would share with you this interesting find from GEB reader Peter K. It appears Google Earth captured a giant tsunami about to strike this remote island in the Pacific. You can see it yourself right here . No tricks, this is really inside Google Earth! However, this isn't a real wave. Instead this is an anomalie in Google Earth's terrain data. The world is a big place,...
AUSTRALIA'S top military brains are about to start running defence operations out of a new super-secure bunker in rural NSW - but don't bother looking for it on Google Earth.
(Cross-posted from the Google Mobile Blog ) I waited in line on launch day to buy my first-generation iPhone, and ever since then it has never left my side. The best part is that it keeps getting more useful with every software upgrade Apple puts out. This time around, Apple has improved their version of Google Maps by putting even more Google features in your pocket. The most eye-catching one is Street...
Thanksgiving is only a week away, which means that the holiday travel season is upon us. Booking plane tickets can be like alphabet soup: you're just trying to get from Los Angeles to Washington, DC, but your itinerary has you changing planes at CVG and landing at BWI. Where on earth are those airports? In Google Maps, you can simply enter the 3-letter airport code to find it on the map. This makes...
The reports of escalating incidents of piracy off the coasts of Somalia have been getting a lot of attention in recent months. The piracy has been in all the news with the recent capture of a supertanker called "Sirius Star" and hostages of its 25 crew along with a full load of oil (worth over $150 million), and the capture of a cargo vessel and hostages carrying tanks a few weeks ago. Last month,...
Indian Space Agency Isro To Roll Out A Rival To Google Earth Rhys Blakely in Bombay November 19, 2008 Courtesy Of The Times Online Emboldened by its first mission to the Moon, India is to take on a target closer to Earth: Google. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which is based in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of the sub-continent, will roll-out a rival to Google Earth, the hugely popular...
From the practical to the political , from the serious to the silly , developers of over 150,000 sites around the world continue to inspire us with their creative uses of the Google Maps API . To celebrate this blossoming ecosystem, we've redesigned our Case Studies video site. Timed with this relaunch, we've got two new videos showcasing innovative API uses, this time for sites that help you make...
Digital Globe or DigitalGlobe is a commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content, and operator of civilian remote sensing spacecraft. Just like Google Earth, Digital Globe takes photos of the globe via satellite imagery or aerial shots. The new Digital Globe promises to offer great digital earth photos or earth maps just the Google earth where [...]
With preparations of our upcoming five year sailing circumnavigation in full swing, I will sometimes get so occupied I can't keep up with all the news. This past week I've missed on a few important bits of news, so here is a catchup post. Most of these were mentioned on OgleEarth during the past week - which also reports on Google Earth-related news. Where 2.0 Call for Papers - Preparation for next...
Google already has customized some of its Web sites for display on the iPhone, but now the company also dived headlong onto Apple’s highly regarded mobile phone with a full-fledge application, a handheld version of its Google Earth geographical software. Read Full Article
Once upon a time, in the far, far away land of Techgeeks lived two university pals named Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They spent long hours dreaming of a company that one day would be the biggest search engine in the world, offering mere mortals the opportunity to traverse the great plains of the planet without moving their lazy asses.
