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New 3D cities: some new, some ancient
Google has brought out a handful of new 3D cities in the past few days.  Today saw the release of Seattle and Pittsburgh, both of which now have hundreds of full-color buildings and look excellent.  Here is a shot from Pittsburgh.   A few days ago, Google unveiled a new layer for Google Earth...
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Google Earth comes to the iPhone and StreetView goes to Spain
A couple of cool new things today: Google Earth is now available as a free app for the iPhone.  Not only is it free, but it’s good!  It looks very similar to the normal Google Earth program, includes 3D terrain, Wikipedia/Panoramio icons and a few other goodies.  No 3D buildings, but...
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France gets a lot more StreetView imagery
As reported by Google Maps Mania and the Digital Earth Blog, Google Maps StreetView has just gotten a lot more imagery in France.  In particular, they now have: Lille Lyon Marseille Nice Paris Toulouse If you find any cool stuff out there, be sure to submit it to our StreetView database. Post...
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Amazing Race 13 in Google Maps
My wife and I have been big fans of The Amazing Race for a few years now, so I thought it’d be fun to track their route throughout the season.  Below is their map after the first leg, from Los Angeles, CA to Salvador, Brazil.  I’ll be updating the map each week with more information,...
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GEH: Mobile launched
If you’re away from home and looking for something to kill some time, we’ve got your answer â€" GEH: Mobile.  It’s thousands of files from our database in the palm of your hand, in the format of a simple mobile website.  It’s designed with the iPhone in mind, but should work well with...
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Over 2,000 locations in our StreetView database
Exactly five months after it first launched, our StreetView section received its 2000th file â€" not bad! File # 2000 was a good find â€" a clear shot of the streetview car in a mirror on the side of the road. Of the 2000 files, the most popular (by votes) is the “burning car“, which is...
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Some big updates to Google Earth
It appears there are some major imagery updates that have just been released for Google Earth.  Google Earth Blog has a growing list, which includes locations from all over the world (US, Switzerland, Turkey, Italy, etc). It seems to be quite a huge update!  Keep your eyes on Google Earth Blog...
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Some useful tools for Hurricane Gustav (and Hanna, Ike, Josephine, etc)
Tropical Atlantic has built some useful tools for Google Earth, showing a variety of possible storm tracks for all of the major storms.  Being able to side a wide variety of computer models in Google Earth gives you a great way to see where the storms might land.  Check it out! Post from:...
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EarthSwoop: Another great way to use the Google Earth plugin
As I revealed on the Digital Earth Blog last night, EarthSwoop has launched.  What is it?  EarthSwoop is a tool you can use to easily create collections of locations around the globe.  Some examples: Some venues for the 2008 Beijing Olympics All 32 NFL stadiums The 50 US State Capitol...
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Google Earth plug-in updated to support Firefox 3
As reported by the Digital Earth Blog and Google Earth Blog, the Google Earth plug-in now works in Firefox 3!  This was a silent update, as you don’t even need to update your plug-in â€" it simply works.  Presumably some code on the backend has been updated. Updating browser plug-ins can be a...
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