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Google has just released what appears to be another substantial batch of StreetView imagery. Thanks to a few tips (thanks 'Duncan' and 'Munden'), we know about a lot of areas already. Updated areas include: [ UPDATED 8:51am EST, 11-March...
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Back in January, we showed you the incredible photos that Frank took while visiting the island of Petite Tabac. You might recognize it as one of the islands used in "Pirates of the Caribbean", as seen below: As part of the imagery update last...
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It appears that Google is doing an imagery update of some kind, but we're not quite sure the extent of it yet. Thanks to GEB reader 'David' for discovering it. If you look around parts of Chile (Talcahuano, Coronel, part of Concepcion, and...
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A few cool bits of news about StreetView: • Navigate through photos : Google has added a feature where you can navigate through user photos while in StreetView. The new feature is quite cool and feels a lot like Microsoft's Photosynth (seen in...
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Google has just released a simple but very useful new feature -- one-click upload from Picasa Web to Panoramio . If your photos are geo-tagged and in a public album, simply click the "Upload to Panoramio" button and off they go. The great thing...
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It seems that Google has just pushed out some fresh imagery for Google Earth. We've only found a little bit of it so far, but there's certainly more out there. As always, you can use Google Maps to determine for sure whether or not a specific...
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We discussed Google Earth on the Nexus One when it was unveiled last month , but now it's officially been released! Frank has had a chance to play with it, and here are some of his thoughts. ------------ I was excited to find that Google Earth for...
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Google has a few openings on the Google Earth team, and has asked us to share them with you since you're some of the biggest Google Earth geeks around! - - - Do you fondly remember the first ever Maps Mashup ( housingmaps.com ) and were you posting...
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Hot on the heels of last night's StreetView update , we find ourselves with a bunch of fresh imagery to enjoy, too! Ottawa, Canada and parts of Ireland have been updated, among others. See the bottom of this post for the full (and oft-updated) list...
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Google has just pushed out a ton of new imagery in StreetView, including: Norway : All new Finland : All new Canada : More added, primarily in Saskatchewan and Alberta, possibly more in Quebec and Ontario. Mexico : Various locations USA : Alaska It's...
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We mentioned it briefly a few days ago, and Google has now released some of that new data for the ocean in Google Earth. As Google explains in their blog , most of the underwater terrain is generated use satellite extrapolations of water surface height...
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Thanks to some sharp-eyed readers ('Alok' in particular), we find ourselves with fresh imagery in Google Earth! We know for sure that parts of India have been updated (Bhopal, in particular), but there's certainly many other areas as well...
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Since the launch of the GeoEye-1 back in late 2008, the satellite has sent a ton of high resolution imagery to Google Earth. Some of their noteworthy imagery includes President Obama's Inauguration and the recent imagery of Haiti . However, it's...
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Back at Where 2.0 2007, Google CTO Michael Jones announced that they had acquired Panoramio , the popular photo hosting company. At the time, there were roughly two million photos in their database. By the following spring it had risen to 4.5 million...
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Google has just released StreetView imagery for Sweden and Norway , details of which can be found on Google Maps Mania . I've also heard that various other areas have been updated, including: UK: New small areas in the UK are now visible. Avebury...