Tip of the week: Shortcuts
August 21st, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Here’s a brief primer on some of the shortcuts you can use while browsing Google Maps. With your mouse, you can zoom in and out: double left-click to zoom in on the area you’re clicking, and double right-click (also known as Ctrl+Click for Mac users) t…
Map of champions
August 20th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
If you’ve been consoling yourself for not being in Beijing by jaunting around in the Google Maps 2008 Summer Games website, you’ll find further comfort with this great mashup from Earthgamz. Check out the placemarks for athletes’ hometowns and t…
Do You Speak Selenese? Contribute to our Maps API Tests!
August 19th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Aviv, Maps API Team
Before we release a new version of the Maps API, we always run it through a huge bank of tests to make sure standard functionality is working. But one thing we’ve realized since releasing the Maps API and watching its ad…
Flash Developers Need Some Direction in Life Too
August 18th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Scott Kilpatrick, Maps API Team
Good arvo from Sydney, Australia, where it’s beautiful even in the dead of winter and the people use contrived abbreviations for literally everything. I kid, I kid. Australia is great, and the vegemite is ev…
Tip of the week: Learning from Mapplets
August 14th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
As students prepare to head back to school, it seems like a good time to share some fun ways to use Mapplets to get students and curious minds interested in discovering new places. To start, you can grab their attention with dynamic 360º panoramas of …
Poetry, community, and forty fabulous islands
August 13th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
The poet John Donne once said, “No man is an island” – and for those of us who’ve had the opportunity to see our users map their world, we believe in the collective knowledge of communities sharing what they know best about the places where they’ve liv…
Where is Georgia on Google Maps?
August 12th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
The recent conflict in Georgia has raised some questions about how Google Maps has handled mapping in that part of the world. The most obvious question is, why doesn’t Google Maps show any cities or roads for Georgia, or its neighbors Armenia and Azer…
Using Google Maps to Visualize ArcGIS Data & Services
August 12th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Sterling Quinn, ESRI Developer
Hi, I’m Sterling Quinn and I work on the development team for server-based GIS technologies at ESRI in Redlands, California. We’re happy to report that ESRI software users can now expose their GIS in Googl…
Google Earth Geographic Web updates
August 12th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Organizing the world’s spatial information means benefiting from the collective knowledge and experiences of people around the globe. Making this information universally accessible enables you to discover the world and its places, not only as they are,…
Off to the Games!
August 8th, 2008 | by Kate | published in Google Earth
The 2008 Summer Games will soon commence in Beijing and will run from August 8th to August 24th. You may have noticed that we recently updated our satellite imagery in Beijing, have added detailed bilingual maps in China, and have created a collection …
New Earth API resources: Complete API Reference, Sample Code, Release Notes, FAQ
August 7th, 2008 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
Posted by Mano Marks, Geo Developer Advocate
This has been a busy week! We’ve released four new resources to help you with the Google Earth API.
We’ve updated the Google Earth API reference. While there haven’t been substantive changes to the API, the…
August 7th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Have you ever found a Mapplet you really wanted to share? You might have tried the “link” feature on Maps, and been frustrated that it only links to the My Maps tab instead of directly to whichever Mapplet you selected. Well, there is in fact a simpl…
August 4th, 2008 | by Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations | published in Google Maps
Posted by Roman Nurik, Earth API Team
Howdy, y’all. My name is Roman Nurik and I’m a newly minted member of the Google Geo APIs team. Some of you may already know me from the Earth Browser Plug-in Google Group. I recently started at Google’s headquart…
More streets in more places
August 4th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Earlier this summer we launched our first international Street View coverage with the Tour de France route. Today I’m excited to announce we’re bringing Street View to new corners of the globe as we launch imagery in Japan and Australia.Our Japan launc…
July 24th, 2008 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
Posted by Bjørn Sandvik,thematicmapping.org
Thematic Mapping Engine (TME) lets you create thematic or statistical maps on-the-fly in the web browser. It then returns a KMZ file which you can view directly with the Google Earth browser plugin, or you…