Google enriches Earth mapping service
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(InfoWorld) - Google is partnering with Discovery Networks, the U.S. National Park Service, and others to enrich its Google Earth mapping application with text and multimedia about geographic locations. With its Featured Content for Google Earth, announced Wednesday, Google will provide links to articles, images, blog postings, and videos that inform about topics like the environment, cities, attractions, parks, and landmarks. Other partners include the United Nations Environmental Program and the Jane Goodall Institute. This is the latest in aÂ string of enhancementsÂ for Google Earth, one of the company's most popular products. In recent months, GoogleÂ ported the applicationÂ to Linux and the Mac OS and integrated it with the company's SketchUp 3D design tool. Google Earth's user interface was also overhauled and itsÂ index of images significantly expanded. Google Earth, lauded by users and industry experts, is a free, downloadable application that taps into a massive database of satellite images. Its video game-like interface lets users "fly" around the globe, zooming in and out of cities. Google acquired the software in 2004 when itÂ bought Keyhole. The Google Earth product family also includes more advanced, fee-based versions of the application designed for commercial uses.
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Web users are being enrolled in a scheme to scour Google Earth images for the missing adventurer.
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Google turned its eyes to the stars on Wednesday, introducing Sky, its complement to the Google Earth ground mapping product.
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Google Earth &#038; Multimedia Featured Content Google has just announced that Google Earth will be integrating multimedia educational information overlays under the Featured Content for Google Earth program. One of the providers is Turn Here, an innovative travel video service which offers free short films on destination cities, restaurants and hotels. Users can access these informative overlays [...]
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Gaia, which bills itself as &#8220;an attempt to reverse engineer famous Google Earth and implement its functionality in open, portable, customizable and extendable way,&#8221; recently published the cease and desist letter it received from Michael T. Jones, Chief Technologist for Google Earth. Mr. Jones writes that he and his team &#8220;are concerned that you may not [...]
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Led by John Hanke, Google Earth and Google Maps are delivering cartography tools to the masses.
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Weather Channel feeds up temperatures, weather conditions and storm tracking to Google Maps and Google Earth.
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EveryScape's 3-D maps go one step further than Google: They let you explore the insides of buildings, too. The service, launching next week, will give virtual explorers views of restaurants, hotels and landmarks in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Seattle.
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Google Inc. has added more video and other bonus features for users of its popular three-dimensional mapping software to unearth even more information about destinations around the world.
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Google Inc. has added a feature to Google Maps that lets users watch edits made to locations in real time.
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University of California scientists use a Google widget to improve automatic image cataloging in large collections like the Library of Congress. It'll add "common sense" to computers' ability to recognize objects in photographs, by adding a semantic context to object recognition.
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By Jeff Smith  Terrific navigational device or over the edge?  That's a question many are asking about Google Inc.'s newest map feature, Street View, which offers panoramic images of Denver's downtown streets and those of four other cities.
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A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
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Oracle is integrating one of its applications with Google's mapping service to help service providers locate customers more quickly.
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Google is acquiring Panoramio, a photo sharing site that lets user upload photos and identify where they were taken.
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NEW online maps which let users zoom in on photos of roads and homes has shocked the US.   A car loaded with 11 cameras drove 50,000 miles filming for Street View on Google's Earth maps. The Big Brother-style pictures show faces and even look into windows.
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New ground-based city views wow the crowd Google yesterday announced the immediate availability of "Street View" - ground-level, photographic panoramas of Denver, Las Vegas Miami, and New York which allow surfers to "navigate around a city, 'virtually' walking the streets, checking out restaurants and landmarks and even zoom in on bus stops or street signs to make travel plans":â¦