Recent Google Geonews: My Location for Google Maps, What's Here Feature, Chrome OS and much more from SlashGeo

Catching up from my holidays, here are the recent Google-related geonews I found interesting on the geoblogs. The official Google Lat Long blog shares these stories: the just announced My Location for Google Maps, no need for a mobile device anymore. There's also a new Google Maps directions gadget available for websites. There are also three posts on new 3D cities in Google Earth, Dursley, Warsaw, Prague and Oslo, Toronto and Indianapolis too. Probably more important, Google added a What's Here feature to Google Maps, finding relevant search items via reverse geocoding of a specified location. Google Earth is also becoming more and more foreign languages friendly. There's an entry on region-based marker clustering. Fortius One wonders what the freshly announced Google Chrome Operating System will mean for GIS. Ogle Earth shared, some time ago already, a detailed entry on the Amnesty International documentation of the Sri Lanka war aftermath with Google Earth. Mapperz mentions the new Google City Tours in their Labs: "The idea is that anyone can locate points of interest and plan up-to three day trips in major cities." The GEB mentions Snoovel, a Google Earth tour creation and hosting site. Even NASA is doing robotic recon with Google Earth. The same blog informs us about PhotoSketch, a tool to make 3D buildings from photos. See also related stories below.


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Mid-week Geonews: KML Regions, OSM, SDI, Many Maps and more

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Here's in rafale recent geonews that may interest our readers. GeoWeb Guru has an entry named "Using KML Regions to Display Large GIS Datasets in Google Earth" and a companion one named "Advanced KML Region Concepts". Google announced the Qualified JS Maps Developer program. There's a mention of OpenStreetMap in The Economist and overlay on-site photos in 3D with OSM data. Still on the topic of maps, OtM offers entries named "Creating the [U.S.] National Broadband Map for $3.5 Million Instead of $350 Million", "North Korea Uncovered" and "Same Sex Marriage and Straight Divorce". SS has these entries: "Maps to Nuclear Weapon Sites Accidentally Leaked", "Tackling the Space-Time Problem" and "Revealing Insight into Americans vs. Europeans". The GEB shares a map on US Drought Conditions in Google Earth by NOAA. Recent geospatial open source releases include FDO Toolbox 0.7.7 and Rtree 0.4.3. Meanwhile, BtP offers an entry named "Open RESTful Architecture for Geospatial Data Web Services: Accessing Spatial Data with No Programming" APB runs these entries: "Japanese Govt Funding "Infection Tracking" via Cell Experiment", "Using GPS to Keep Your Hybrid Cool and Efficient" and "Keeping up with Microsoft SQL Server Spatial". V1 discusses the question Can Non-Government Spatial Data Infrastructure Exist? Finally, a quick thanks to Laptop GPS World for their donation to Slashgeo.org - it's getting harder and harder to get in our top donors' list! See the right hand box and our open budget. Instead of copying related stories below, simply use the search box to learn more about these specific topics.

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