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News.blog: Google Maps adds user-created photos and more

News The news is coming out of the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, California, where Poly9 unveiled on Tuesday a Flash-based Google Earth competitor, Free Earth, which doesn't require a client-side download.

Tags: earth, maps, map, san

15 May 2008, 9:15

News.blog: Google Street View to hit Europe in 3D?

News Google Earth and Maps could cover a lot more territory with a lot more detail soon, if some photos from Italy are anything to judge by. Google wouldn't comment either on any European expansion or on 3D scanning, but both ideas are consistent with...

Tags: google, earth, maps, scanning

22 April 2008, 8:45

News.blog: Google Earth adds Street View

News Part of the fun of Google Earth is flying over the virtual planet like Superman. The new Google Earth incorporates the Street View feature of Google Maps, including a full-screen option Enter Google Earth 4.3, released on Tuesday.

Tags: google, virtual, earth, maps

16 April 2008, 8:23

Photos: A satellite spy in the skies

News Remember: this was long before the advent of Google Earth. In orbit, the satellite's distance from Earth ranged from about 185 to 275 kilometres. According to the NRO, the system took pictures while rotating, and the film -- yes, film -- had to be...

Tags: field, earth, air, spy

28 February 2008, 9:32

Photos: Roam the heavens with Google Sky

News Google added a feature a couple of months ago called Sky -- which lets users roam the heavens from its Google Earth application. Effectively turning Google Earth on its head, users are given a view of the sky as seen from Earth where they can view...

Tags: navigate, earth, credit, star

29 November 2007, 9:53

Photos: Kitted-out VW preps for Baja race

News The Baja 1000 route, as depicted on a Google Earth map. The off-road race began on 10 November in Ensenada, Mexico, and traverses about 2,100 kilometres. Teams have 53 hours to complete the course. They cannot go more than 60mph on the highway, and...

Tags: case, gps, race, class

13 November 2007, 9:14

Photos: X Prize's rocket fest

News Google hosted an exhibitor booth at the X Prize Cup this weekend, with displays that let people test its mapping application Google Earth and its new Google Sky. Google also recently put up $30m (£15m) to sponsor the Lunar X Prize, a contest to put...

Tags: force, racing, fly, mod

30 October 2007, 10:16

Photos: California's wildfires rage on

News Credit: Google Earth/J.Emilio Flores for Getty Lost to the fire was the Castle Kashan (shown above in a Google Earth image), a fairy-tale-like structure built 30 years ago on this Malibu hill. The Calfires site also makes use of Google Maps to...

Tags: air, response, tech, earth

25 October 2007, 9:02

Photos: Google Earth goes virtual

News Now, those developers will also be able to select and import terrain from Google Earth. Virtual-world developers using Multiverse Networks' platform are able to import 3D models from Google's 3D Warehouse into their projects.

Tags: models, google, platform, virtual

16 October 2007, 9:51

News.blog: Google Earth's geotagged YouTube videos

News If you were waiting for YouTube to roll out a maps feature to browse geotagged videos, the solution has come in the form of a new Google Earth layer released today. Like other layers in Google Earth, you need to turn this one on to start seeing...

12 October 2007, 9:41

George Lucas thinks outside the box

News Google Earth, for example, could be used to teach geography to students, Lucas said. Filmmaker George Lucas envisions turning classroom computers into something as ordinary as pencils -- and, no, it doesn't only happen in the movies.

19 September 2007, 9:41

News.blog: NASA lifts Google Moon

News NASA, for example, recently added photographs taken from the satellite sensor Landsat into Google Earth.The updated moon site includes higher-resolution lunar maps and additional content from the Apollo missions, including panoramic images, audio...

19 September 2007, 8:22

Google sets $30m prize for moon landing

News The contest invites private teams from around the world to build a robotic rover capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 metres and then sending video, images and data back to Earth, among other feats.

14 September 2007, 10:29

Photos: Google Earth beams you into space

News Google has expanded the boundaries of Google Earth to include views of the universe with a new add-on called Sky. The tool, found in Google Earth 4.2, offers high-resolution photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope and educational information...

23 August 2007, 10:28

Google Desktop moves to Linux

News Google also offers Linux versions of its Picasa photo-editing software, as well as Google Earth and Google Toolbar for Firefox. Google on Wednesday launched a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux in a sign of encouragement by the search...

28 June 2007, 9:05