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Google News: Sky and Transit Updated, WarViews, Swiss Alps Comparison and More
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Here's the most interesting Google related geonews I found for January so far. Google significantly updated Google Sky (a little more on the GEB), with many new layers and associated data. Still from the Official Google blog, some news an discussion about Google Transit. Not to miss is the impressive comparison of a real flight and a Google Earth flight in the Swiss Alps. Amongst the other GE news, there's the WarViews animated conflict geodata (via OE) and surface-to-air missile sites and range dataset for GE. The 3D Route Builder which uses GE which reached version 1.0. Here's a 3D-mouse working with GE. And finally, a few navigation shortcuts for Google Earth 4.
See also the numerous related stories below.
Related Stories
Reviews: Civilian Casualties in the Colombian Conflict - A Spatial Analysis
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GISCafe links to a technical paper (31 pages, pdf) about the georeferencing of human security related to civilian casualties in the Colombian conflict. From the synopsis: We will also present [...] the dynamics of civilian casualties for various combinations of event types.
Application Domains: Conflict and Nuclear Maps
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The Cartography blog discuss the nobelprize.org site mapping world conflicts. Meanwhile, the GeoCarta blog points to news.telegraph article about World War Three seen through Soviet eyes - including a 1979 map revealing the Soviet bloc's vision of a seven-day atomic holocaust between Nato and Warsaw Pact forces. From the cartography blog: "Tucked away in the Peace section of the site is a Shockwave map depicting armed conflicts in the 20th century. This includes inter-state, civil and colonial wars. A moveable timeline at the bottom of the map is broken up by decade, allowing the user to see the progression of (or regression into) war throughout the century."
Application Domains: Middle-East Conflict Maps 1 comment
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The Cartography blog links to beautiful and informative New York Times maps of the Middle-East conflict. One of the maps shows ethnic groups, population size, location of oil wealth and, very informative, the diplomatic relations between each Middle-East country.
Application Domains: Israel - Lebanon Conflict and Geospatial Data Access
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The Ogle Earth blog share an interesting entry on the impact of geospatial technologies and data access on the Israel - Lebanon conflict. From a Defense-Update article: "Target analysis, including coordinates gathering has been dramatically improved in recent months, as a significant part of Israel was included in "Google Earth" service, offering everyone a free access to relatively high resolution satellite images of Israel, provided with fairly accurate GPS coordinates which are accurate enough to support the aiming of rocket attacks."
Application Domains: Iran-UK Border Conflict - A War of Geography
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The Brain off blog offers a nice summary of the geography behind the Iran - UK conflict at the Irak-Iran border, showing screenshots and linking to numerous related stories. From the blog: "The current stand off between Iran and the UK over navy personnel boils down to extreme measures justified by bad geography. There is confusion over what the border is and where everyone was. And no, it’s by no means a defense of what’s happened, or even a criticism of the UK govt (who must be aware that their military exercises are pretty dang close to Iran anyway, and want it that way) .. I just find the ambiguous nature of imaginary lines fascinating."
Review: Google Sky 3 comments
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Google Earth Blog has a full review of the new Google Sky features in GE 4.2. From the piece: "Many of us, who think Google Earth has been a wonderful tool for viewing the Earth, have asked Google to use the same tool and techniques to look at other planets and places of the universe. Sky is certainly a wonderful first step. It stays true to Google Earth's formula for success by providing high resolution imagery, intuitive and easy-to-use interface with the mouse, layers with more information, the same kind of tools for sharing and annotating places with others (placemarks, image overlays, network links, etc.), and most importantly it gives an exciting new look at places many people have never viewed with their own eyes. Just like GE opened our eyes and gave us exciting opportunities to explore our planet, this new release is already doing the same thing for the night sky."
Previous posts at GE blog link to stories of rumours of censorship with the discovery of a missing chunk of sky and the discovery of a spaceship.
Previous posts at GE blog link to stories of rumours of censorship with the discovery of a missing chunk of sky and the discovery of a spaceship.
Application Domains: Google Transit Out of Beta and Integrated to Google Maps
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The official Google LatLong blog informs us Google Transit is now out of beta and integrated to Google Maps. From the blog: "We're excited to say it's now a fully integrated feature in Google Maps. This means that when you look up directions for areas where we have transit coverage you'll now have the option of seeing how to get there using public transportation." See related stories below.
Technology: Switzerland Added to Google Maps & Earth
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The Official Google LatLong blog informs us Switzerland transportation information has been added to Google Maps: "It also includes easy-to-use driving directions and trip-planning public transport information. We worked with Swiss content providers, ranging from Swiss doctors to the Public Transit Authority, to provide a comprehensive one-stop-shop of local information. The same information can also be accessed from Google Earth."
NYC Transit Adopts Virtual Earth 1 comment
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Virtual Earth For Government blog reports the following : "Arguably the largest transit in the world, New York City Transit, today announced that it has released a new version of its Trip Planner online travel itinerary service. The service, which allows visitors and residents to get walking directions for their travel itinerary within the City, now features Virtual Earth maps, providing a much richer visualization experience. "
For a more detailed summary and a link to the press release, please visit the Virtual Earth For Government blog.
For a more detailed summary and a link to the press release, please visit the Virtual Earth For Government blog.
Google Earth Lawsuit Over Sky layer 4 comments
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CNET is currently running an article about this new development. From their summary : "A former Google contractor is suing the company for allegedly stealing from him the idea for the Sky layer in Google Earth.
The lawsuit filed this week in federal district court in Atlanta seeks punitive damages of $25 million from Google.
Jonathan Cobb claims in his suit that he disclosed the idea for a Google Sky idea in internal e-mail discussion groups when he worked at Google as a contractor beginning in 2006.
The Google Earth Sky layer, when it launched in August 2007, was similar in interface and functionality to what he had conceptualized, Cobb claims. "
For a more detailed report, please visit the CNET article link above.
The lawsuit filed this week in federal district court in Atlanta seeks punitive damages of $25 million from Google.
Jonathan Cobb claims in his suit that he disclosed the idea for a Google Sky idea in internal e-mail discussion groups when he worked at Google as a contractor beginning in 2006.
The Google Earth Sky layer, when it launched in August 2007, was similar in interface and functionality to what he had conceptualized, Cobb claims. "
For a more detailed report, please visit the CNET article link above.
Google Geonews: More on GE 4.3, New Beating Traffic Tool and More 1 comment
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Here's the recent Google geonews that caught my attention. Google's Micheal Jones replied to the kml being the html of geographic content discussion, related to KML now an official OGC standard.
Following the significant release of Google Earth 4.3, the official Lat Long blog explains the new 3D buidlings, StreetView manipulation, the sun lighting effects and more on dynamic data in Google Earth.
There's also new layers for Google Sky (the GEB entry).
TMR has a nice entry on Google and disputed place names.
And finally, Google informs us of the new Transit cities added (again!) and their new feature to beat traffic with Google Maps (some say it's a direct competitor to Microsoft's recently announced ClearFlow). From the LL entry: "Now you can see what the traffic is typically like at any given day and time, making planning a drive easier than ever by helping you avoid likely congestion. [...] We also now display accidents, construction, and road closures in most areas where we have traffic coverage."
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