In 1998 I was making my thesis project about dynamic modelling of 3D buildings in urban environments. Me and a friend were taking photographs of buildings in central Gothenburg to use them as textures in a custom engine written in C++. The available data consisted only of ground-level coordinates, not...
Three years ago I wrote about how some dudes with loads of time drove around in San Francisco, shooting millions of street-level photos. With a bit of Ajax you could explore the city and maybe even do some window-browsing. Some months later, Richard Howe took 11 000 photos of Manhattan...
It's been about a year since my latest post concerning Google Maps, but now it's time again. Google has recently updated Google Maps with a street view mode. Just drag a little yellow man along the streets and there will be street-level photographs for that spot. I just checked a...
The world of mashups didn't stop at the infamous Chicago crime map. It goes on and on with stuff such as Weatherbonk (collects weather and live traffic feeds on the map) and the "Where to go" travel map. Also, Plain old Google Maps has added multiple destination points to their...
The web site Placeopedia is a mashup using Google Maps, connecting cities with their Wikipedia entries. In other words, it's sort of a geographical version of Wikipedia for the planet Earth. It's still in a very early phase and there are lot of contenders, but it could be interesting to...
In addition to previous maps, there is now satellite coverage of several major European cities. Have a look at Mont St Michel, Münsterplatz in Freiburg, San Marcus Square in Venice, Castelgandolfo, the alcazar of Segovia... It also enables local business search and driving directions. I love this! Related posts Street...
The map war between Google and Microsoft has recently gone full throttle. In response to Google Maps, today Microsoft launched Virtual Earth. In standard software tradition they "happened" to delete the Apple headquarter from the map. Oops, we did it again. But here is the Google building, have a look...
My favourite creative minds are back! Yesterday Google, also known as "Microsoft done right", improved their already fantastic web application Google Maps, now including satellite photos from DigitalGlobe and Earthsat, covering United States and Canada. And it's fast! Try it at once. It is very addictive to zoom in on...
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