Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 14:44
Here's the recent Google-related geonews, it covers a longer time span than usual.
From official sources:
- Here's a summary entry of the major changes and updates to Google Maps and Google Earth in 2011
- Google launched today Public Alerts in Google Maps: "If a major weather event is headed for your area, you might go online to search for the information you need: What’s happening? Where and when will it strike? How severe will it be? What resources are available to help?"
- The World Bank signed a greement to use Google Map Maker for disaster preparedness, this just makes me wish even more that Google will join and merge GMM with the OpenStreetMap bandwagon
- On the dev blog, they introduced pyKML, a Python library for manipulating KML
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There's new 45 deg imagery for nothing less than 24 cities:
- US: Boise/Caldwell, ID; Buffalo, NY; Chattanooga, TN; Cleveland, OH; Denver, CO; Greenville, SC; Houston/Pasadena, TX; Kansas City/Gladstone, MS; Knoxville/Louisville, TN; Memphis/Bartlett, TN; Mobile, AL; Nashville, TN; Pensacola, FL; Racine, WI; Santa Monica, CA; Sarasota/Englewood, FL; Stockton, CA
- Europe: Baiona, Spain; Basel, Switzerland; Friedberg, Germany; Mannheim, Germany; Santander, Spain; Ulm, Germany
- South America: Porto Alegre, Brazil
- StreetView is now available in South Korea, for the cities of Seoul and Busan and there's new campus tours in Street View too
- Google is open sourcing Sky Map and will collaborate with Carnegie Mellon University
- On the dev blog, here's about integrating Street View and custom panoramas into your apps
- And another entry discusses heatmap.js and its Google Maps API Heatmap Overlay
- There's an official Google Maps game coming to Google+ next month
- Here's biodiversity tours in Google Earth
- There was a major imagery update the first week of January, here's the details
From other sources:
- The GEB shares his own recap the year 2011 for Google Earth
- Here's an entry on traffic congestion visualization in Google Earth
- If you're curious about the Costa Concordia ship wreck, here it is in Google Earth and satellite imagery
- Here's an entry on wave mechanics in Google Earth
- Here's the North American power plant emissions in Google Earth
- Mapperz informs us that Google Maps U.K. now integrates National Rail Info and Ed Parsons offers an entry on multi-modal travel planning in Google Maps
- APB reports that Android phones now ranks above iPhone when it comes to GPS navigation
