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Latest blog posts from Digital Earth Blog

StreetView being rolled out in New Zealand
If your calendar says December 2 (as it does for a few people already), you can now check out StreetView imagery in New Zealand.  The rest of us will apparently need to wait until midnight tonight, or use a proxy server to access it (http://maps.google.co.nz/streetview).  If you’re able to...
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Published a day ago

Major update to Google Maps, primarly with StreetView
Hot on the heels of its arrival on the iPhone, the web interface of Google Maps has just received a major overhaul.  In particular, the handling of StreetView is much different. Google Maps Mania has a great overview of the changes, as does the video below.  Check it out! Post from: Digital...
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Published 6 days ago

StreetView comes to the iPhone
As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the new firmware update today for the iPhone (version 2.2) includes Google StreetView.  I’m still loading the update on my phone, but I’m expecting good things.  As with Google Earth for the iPhone, I would think that the multi-touch input will work very...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Google releases SketchUp 7
Google has just released version 7 of SketchUp, their excellent 3D modelling tool.  They’ve added a variety of tools at both ends of their userbase �" it’s easier to get started, but it’s also more powerful for their advanced users.  Here’s a short video showing some of the new...
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Published 2 weeks ago

A few new 3D cities in Google Earth
As reported by the Google Earth Blog, there are a few new 3D cities in Google Earth �" Pittsburgh, PA and Seattle, WA.  There may be others, but those are the two that have been found so far. I’ll keep poking around see if any other cities have fresh 3D imagery in them.  Here’s a shot from...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Amazing 3D recreation of Ancient Rome in Google Earth
Google is about to unveil a new layer for Google Earth that shows over 5700 3D buildings from the city of Rome, circa 320 AD.  This is based at least in part from the model of the city we showed you last year from the University of Virginia.  If nothing else, they’re both based off the the...
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Published 3 weeks ago

MapQuest adds more new (old) features
As their lead over Google Maps continues to dwindle, MapQuest has rolled out a few more new features.  By “new”, I mean new to MapQuest, not new to online mapping. In this case, the new feature is draggable route changing.  This is almost identical to the feature that Google released about...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Huge imagery release for Virtual Earth
Microsoft has rolled out another enormous imagery release for Virtual Earth.  Details can be found here, but the quick version includes: Orthos   Spain Japan Obliques (Bird’s Eye) United States Japan Australia Canada United Kingdom Germany Austria Luxembourg Sadly, once again, there...
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Published 4 weeks ago

StreetView released for Washington DC, Seattle and Baltimore
Very timely.  On election day here in the US, Google has released StreetView for Washington, DC, along with Seattle, WA and Baltimore, MD. The Google Earth Blog has a nice write-up about the new coverage and we’ll post our finds in the GEH StreetView database as we come across noteworthy...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope finally has SpaceNavigator support
When WorldWide Telescope came out earlier this year, it blew a lot of people away �" including me.  It’s a phenomenal program! However, it didn’t support the excellent SpaceNavigator device, making it much more difficult to use.  I thought it was a bug at first, but it was simply not a...
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Published a month ago