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Upgraded forums and “Top Submitters” in StreetView
A couple of nice updates to the site: vBulletin 4.0 �" We’ve upgraded our forums to vBulletin 4.0, giving you more features and better security. Top StreetView Submitters �" We’ve had a “top submitters” list on our main site for a while, but some of you had asked for a similar list in...
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New tool for you to use: Easy LatLon
This is a pretty simple one.  I often find myself quickly needing to get the latitude/longitude for a particular point, and there’s not a simple way to get it.  There’s some easy ways, but none that are just simple and quick.  That’s what this fills. Fire up Easy LatLon and browse around...
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Over a million downloads for user ‘SpiderX22′!
We’ve just reached a cool milestone.  One our most prolific file submitters, SpiderX22, has now had his files downloaded over a million times! He’s submitted more than 1200 files to the site over the years, and the total downloads for those files has just passed 1,000,000.  Great work,...
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100,000 members
Just a quick, fun note �" the number of registered users in our forums has crossed the 100,000 mark.  Wow! Thanks to all of you who have contributed over the years, and we look forward to many more! Post from: Google Earth Hacks blog100,000 members
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Track new forum discussions via Twitter
Those those of you that use our forums and use Twitter, here’s a new account for you to follow �" @GEHforums.  This Twitter account simply takes any new threads in the forums and tweets out the title of the thread and a link.  It’s a good way to keep up with new discussions without having...
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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 �" 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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