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Thursday, 11 October 2012

Google rolls out Street View's biggest ever update

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Google has updated 250,000 miles of roads around the world with new Street View footage.
The company is also increasing Street View coverage in a number of countries around the world, with more roads in the US, UK, Singapore, Sweden, Italy and Canada getting the nod.
As well as the road tripping, Google has added several new 'special collections' which feature photography of interesting and beautiful locations around the globe.
These include interior images of places like Elsinore Castle so you need never leave your home again, if you don't want to.

Virtual travels

Even iOS 6 users can get in on the updated Street View action thanks to Google's roll out of the photographical mapping to its web app, which many are relying on after the catastrophic communal shunning of Apple's own iOS 6 Maps App.
The new Street View updates are available from today. As usual, Google has selected a few highlights that you can hop to from its blog post, so if you've got that spectacular combination of itchy feet and laziness then you'll be quids in.

Source: Techradar

Thursday, 2 August 2012

Google Earth's time-lapse tool shows 13 years of planetary change

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Want to watch deforestation spread across the Amazon, or witness Las Vegas conquering the deserts of Nevada? A feature on Google Earth lets you explore time-lapse footage from 13 years of satellite data.

The tool -- built by Google, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's robotics institute, and the US Geological Survey (USGS) -- lets you view imagery collected by Nasa's Landsat program between 1999 and 2011.

With that, you can go to any point on the globe and move back and forth in time. You'll be able to see how events like deforestation, urban growth and drying seas have changed the face of the planet.

The Landsat program has continuously collected imagery of the Earth's surface for the past 40 years, and since 2008, the USGS has made those photographs available for free. But accessing that mass of data (measured in petabytes) is a cumbersome process.

"The sheer volume of visual data is daunting to explore by conventional means," said Rebecca Moore, engineering manager of Google Earth Engine. "Together we can now offer an intuitive, effortless method to explore the planet in space and time."

These timelapse videos contain an incredible amount of detail. "If you could see the entire video at full resolution, a single frame would be 1.78 terapixels which is 18 football fields' worth of computer screens laid side-by-side," saidEric Nguyen, software engineer for Earth Engine.

You can find some featured time lapse videos and galleries at the Earth Engine website, or you can plunge into the vast data catalogue to view the entire archive of satellite imagery.

Source : wired

Monday, 30 July 2012

Google Earth 7.0 in Ipad

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Google Earth 7.0 has just hit the iTunes App Store bringing with it those all-new, stunning 3D maps that the company showed off last month. Of course, the highly-realistic 3D imagery goes head-to-head with "Flyover" in Apple's new maps in iOS 6, but since that operating system isn't available for anyone but developers at the moment, Google Earth is your only option. The new imagery is only available in Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Geneva, and Rome, but Google promises that it will add more cities "over the coming weeks." Only the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later can handle the new feature, but all will be able to access a new tour guide that will show you a city from above. For those keeping score, Google released its Android version of the app about a month ago

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Google street view in Antarctica now!

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Google has added a selection of panoramas of Antarctica to its Street View maps feature, covering Shackleton and Scott's huts, among other locations.

The search giant released its first Antarctic panoramas back in 2010, covering Crescent Island and a large gathering of penguins. Now, however, that's been bulked out by several more scenes from the continent.

Those include the South Pole Telescope, Shackleton's hut, Scott's hut, Cape Royds Adélie Penguin Rookery and the Ceremonial South Pole-- which lies a short distance from the real geographic South Pole, and is mainly used for photo opportunities.

The imagery was collected with a tripod camera with a fisheye lens -- the same kit used to take photos of business interiors in Google's business photos programme. Alex Starns, Google's technical program manager of Street Viewexplained in a blog post: "We worked with this technology because of its portability, reliability and ease-of-use (our Street View trikes wouldn't be much use in the snow)."

Starns added: "The goal of these efforts is to provide scientists and travel (or penguin) enthusiasts all over the world with the most accurate, high-resolution data of these important historic locations. With this access, schoolchildren as far as Bangalore can count penguin colonies on Snow Hill Island, and geologists in Georgia can trace sedimentary layers in the Dry Valleys from the comfort of their desks. Feel free to leave your boots and mittens behind, and embark on a trip to Antarctica."

Source : wired

Sunday, 15 July 2012

Google brings five California-based US National Parks into Street View

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Taking a virtual tour of the Amazon or Antarctica? Totally doable with Street View. But some of America's finest National Parks? Yeah, those have been a long time coming. Today, Google announced the inclusion of five California-based US National Parks in Street View, and for those who haven't had the opportunity (of a lifetime) to visit, they're absolutely worth a look. Starting at the top, Redwoods National Park provides a street level look at some of the world's most mysterious trees, while those looking for even more Treebeard-type characters can point their browser to Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks. Naturally, Yosemite and Joshua Tree (shown above) are included as well, and the 360-degree views Google's cadre of motorcars managed to capture really do a fairly astounding job at capturing the splendor. The toughest part? Knowing which one to traverse first.

Google Lat Long Blog

Friday, 13 July 2012

Google Maps adds walking directions for 44 African countries on web and mobile

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Whether it's on two wheels, under cover or across the cruel watery mistress, Google Maps wants to get you there. But what about the long, arduous pedestrian plod? Well, from today, 44 African nations will never need to put a foot wrong, thanks to the introduction of walking directions to their web and mobile versions of the mapping service. The search giant is keen to remind you that the new feature is still in beta, so if you end up somewhere else, you might need to rely on other methods to find out where you are.

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