Author: Sue
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Google Maps out of Beta; Now Google Local
Google announced today that Google Maps is no longer in beta and has been merged with Google’s local search technology. It is now known as Google Local and is now […]
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Panoramio -Photos linked to Google Maps locations
Using Panoramio, you can browse photos from different places in the world or add your own. They don’t have a lot of photos yet, but a cool site. Check out […]
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Earth Contest – Google Earth game
This free game uses Google Earth to play a kind of geocaching, where you launch the game from within Google Earth and follow the clues to various location checkpoints. If […]
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VirtuSphere – Immersive Virtual Reality environment
One avenue of research in geospatial technologies and geovisualization is immersive Virtual Reality. One of the biggest issues is how to simulate moving through a real landscape. The VirtuSphere rotates […]
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DigitalGlobe announces plans for 2 new imaging satellites
DigitalGlobe just announced their plans to launch 2 new imaging satellites, WorldView I and WorldView II, with WorldView I scheduled to launch no later than 2006 and WorldView II no […]
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David Rumsey on the Future of Mapping – via ITConversations
While we were at the Podcasting Symposium last week, we heard a presentation from the guy from ITConversations, which is an online catalog for audio presentations. They mainly cover IT […]
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ViewRanger : 3D landscapes on your mobile phone
Once again, something cool for people in the UK. ViewRanger 1.0 is a mapping application for mobile phones that gives you a 3D landscape display as an interface for accessing […]
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ESRI – Hurricane Disaster Viewer
ESRI is serving an ArcWeb Services powered Hurricane Disaster viewer on its website. It offers a number of data layers from before the hurricanes, such as population density and imagery, […]
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CNET Review of Microsoft’s Virtual Earth beta
CNET posted their review of MSN Virtual Earth beta, which you can read here Their review of Google Earth beta back in July can be found here CNET gives Virtual […]
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Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
Satellite imagery shows Arctic ice melt
Whatever your beliefs on the global warming issue, the recent spate of articles on the melting of Arctic ice and the warming of the climate in Alaska seem pretty scary. […]
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