Starting to catch up the numerous geonews of the past weeks covering our Summer break. Here’s the recent Google-related geonews.
From official sources:
- A new ‘explore’ feature, Spend more time exploring with Google Maps
- 36 new University campuses in Street View, Take a college road trip with Street View
- From the official Google Geo Developers Blog, Recap of Google Maps at I/O 14 (videos)
- Flash is dead you know, Turning down the Flash Maps API
From other sources:
- APB reports that Google Began Selling its Aerial Imagery, called “Google Imagery”, US-only and aerial-only at the moment. Also at the GEB blog
- Useful mobile sensors, Using Street View cars to check for gas leaks
- New data, London goes 3D
- Other new data, Street View now available in Serbia
- India requires permission for mapping, Google’s Mapping Contest Draws Ire From Indian Government
- In a nutshell, The differences between Google Earth and Google Maps
- The dangers of crowdsourcing, How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business
- Update, Supreme Court Rejects Appeal By Google Over Street View Data Collection
- A video on Google’s Project Tango, Project Tango is Giving Mobile Devices a Sense of Space and Motion (Video)
- Here’s an entry on Geology in Google Earth
- A hot topic, Mapping the Ebola outbreak in Google Earth
- History in Google Earth, The 100th anniversary of the start of World War I
- Another piece of history, 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission
- And there was the usual New Google Earth imagery – July 18