The United States Environmental Protection Agency has selected Microsoft’s Virtual Earth Platform for its geospatial mapping applications. The combination of diverse capabilities and imagery appears to be what appealed to the agency.
It has nothing to do with organizing the world’s information — but I don’t care, it’s pretty cool. Google’s backing a private moon landing. In particular, it’s putting up $30 million for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a contest for private landings on the moon.
FlashEarth Mashup with Google Earth 4.2 from the Google Earth Blog reports on a site named Flash Earth that provides mapping services from several providers in a desktop like experience, using Flash technologies. Flash Earth gives you mapping data from Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps, OpenLayers and NASA Terra. The Flash map lets […]
The New York Times has a long article on mashups, the state of online mapping and user-generated content more generally. It’s an overview piece, but does a good job of capturing the fact that online mapping in particular is one of the important trends online: visualizing all sorts of data on a map, whether local […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google is bringing mashups behind the enterprise firewall and into the browser. What that means, among other things, is that Google Earth Enterprise users will be able to see data rendered on Google Earth within a browser environment rather than having the Earth client on their individual desktops. Here’s the Google Blog post.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
On Friday, the Google LatLong Blog announced the company had acquired ImageAmerica, “a company that builds high resolution cameras for the collection of aerial imagery.” Google plans to use the capabilities in Google Maps and Earth. ImageAmerica provided some of the high-resolution post-Hurricane Katrina images (no longer available) in Google Earth.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
The Google Earth Blog has an overview of a big, high resolution image update for Google Maps (also on Google Earth). The update is global. The two “platforms” are inching closer together with all KML files being indexed and discoverable now in Google Maps. Also, last week Google (on the Lat Long Blog) promoted its […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Yesterday I discovered Google’s new “Street View” by chance, looking for directions, and blogged it, before it was officially announced and before I’d had a chance to talk to anyone at Google. At Where 2.0 yesterday I spoke to John Hanke, Google Maps GM, after the official announcement about Street View and some of the […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Local search is coming to a neighborhood near you – literally. Google is the latest and highest profile site to introduce what might be called “colloquial” neighborhood level search into Google Maps. What it means is that people can now use popular terms and even geo-slang in some cases to identify businesses and points of […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google goes back to pre-Katrina maps from USA Today reports that Google Maps has changed their satellite imagery of New Orleans to show pre-Katrina images, getting some local residents angry and wondering if there’s some type of cover-up in the works. However, it’s unclear if these are pre-Katrina images or not — and the situation’s […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
InfoNow and Microsoft Virtual Earth have announced a partnership to provide Virtual Earth enhanced mapping on third party websites that use InfoNow’s Location Insight product. Location Insight provides banks, retailers and others with the ability to deliver store location information on their sites, on mobile devices and over the telephone. You can see how it […]
Google has added support for its KML (Earth) format and the open GeoRSS format to the Google Maps API.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Local search and directory site SuperPages.com has upgraded its mapping functionality, adding a range of sharing and personalization features built on top of the Microsoft Virtual Earth platform. SuperPages’ chief online yellow pages competitor, YellowPages.com also uses Virtual Earth.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Since the advent of the Google and Yahoo (and more recently Virtual Earth) mapping APIs there are hundreds of developers and entrepreneurs who have built interesting and useful mashups. But how does one find them? Of course you could search on Google, Yahoo or Microsoft Live or look at some of the worthy blogs devoted […]
Hooked on Google from the San Jose Mercury News revisits a theme from Microsoft that I’ve reported to readers over the years. That’s how Microsoft’s failure to beat Google in search — despite millions in spending — gets the "it’s early days, give us time" defense from Microsoft. The defense is partially true, but it […]