Google Earth now available for iPad

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Et perfekt match ...

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Google Earth has been finding itself in all sorts of places lately, from the iPhone to Android phones, to the browser, and even the car. Today, hot on the heels of yesterday's launch ofGoogle Earth 5.2 we are proud to announce that Google Earth is now available for Apple’s iPad.

Google Earth for iPad is one of the best ways yet to experience Google Earth. With the combination of an intuitive touch interface, a large screen, and the snappy A4 processor, you a great new way to explore the globe and share your adventures with your friends.

Some iPad users have noticed that Google Earth has been available for the iPad from the very beginning, but until today, this has simply been the iPhone version running in a scaled-up mode. With our latest release, we now have native support for the iPad, which means that you get to see the world in beautiful full-resolution imagery. There is a custom toolbar at the top, and you can click on individual icons to open “balloons” without having to navigate away from the 3D view.

As with the iPhone version, you can easily navigate with your fingers, using one finger to move the globe; two fingers to change your viewpoint; a single finger double-tap to zoom in; and a two-finger double-tap to zoom out. And like all Google Earth products, you can search for geographic features and businesses by typing your query in the search box.

Along with Panoramio photos, Wikipedia articles, and Google Places, you can also view roads rendered directly on the terrain. Select any of these layers from the “Layers” menu in the toolbar.


To start exploring the world on your iPad, download it today from the iTunes store.

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Read more: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/06/google-earth-now-available-for-ipad.html

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Google Earth Pro 5.2: A powerful tool for professionals

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Tænk hvad Google kunne gøre ved danske GIS data ... Prøv at tænk lidt over det ...

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Every day, thousands of our customers rely on Google Earth Pro for its power to visualize and analyze vast amounts of global data from a large array of sources. Applications of Google Earth Pro range from analyzing environmental impacts of natural disasters to the creation of detailed presentations for prospective clients.

With yesterday's release of Google Earth Pro 5.2, we have added new data layers to give you even more information to help make the right decisions. This set of exclusive data layers allow for direct access to information on land parcels, traffic flow, and the US census results. In addition, we have added new features to enable you to visualize large data sets with amazing detail as well as to save your measurements for retrieval in the future. Google Earth Pro 5.2 also optimizes the data you import from outside sources to allow for faster rendering of your data and improved clarity at every altitude. Finally, saving the measurements you make in Google Earth Pro allows you to quickly retrieve information from your data across multiple sessions.

Google Earth Pro premier data layers

We’re happy to announce that with thus launch, discovering information about the people around you, your projects, and your clients is now much easier with the set of exclusive data layers built into Google Earth Pro.

Earth Pro now includes three new data layers:

U.S. Demographics includes demographic data (e.g. income, age, education) from 2010 and estimated 2015 values at the state, county, tract, and block group level with data fromClaritas. For income and age, you can view beautifully color-coded layers enabling you to quickly zero in on target markets and even cross-reference with your own layers.


U.S. Parcel data gives you critical parcel and building information such as Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN), use codes, and zoning data. You can also get more detailed reports, such as sales history, by purchasing a DataQuick PDF report, which is linked to within the layer.



U.S. Daily Traffic Counts reports the average number of cars that have passed through an intersection in the US.



Processing large data sets

Google Earth Pro has always been a great tool for importing and viewing GIS data. However, it has been difficult to import very large data sets and view them interactively. Now, with the release of Google Earth Pro 5.2, we’ve introduced new tools for processing and preparing complex vector files and high resolution images that allow for fast, interactive browsing of your data. These tools, leveraging the same technology used to create the core Google Earth layers, divide or “regionate” data into many smaller files which are loaded dynamically. This ensures that only the data which is in view needs to be retrieved, maintaining a high level of performance. With vector data regionation, Google Earth Pro 5.2 will prevent data congestion at high altitudes while still allowing you to access the data points you care about.

When importing image overlays into Google Earth Pro you now have the option to create what is called a super image overlay, another form of data regionation. The new super image overlay feature automatically creates image tiles with the appropriate image resolution for every altitude. Similar to the base imagery already included in Google Earth Pro, you will now be able to seamlessly zoom in from high altitudes to extremely detailed lower altitudes without forcing Google Earth to load the entire image file while viewing a specific portion of your imagery. The use of image regionation dramatically speeds up the rendering process and in doing so, allows you to visualize complex imagery quickly and efficiently. Never again will you be forced to lose image clarity in order to retain the speed and agility you expect from Google Earth. Of course, data sets processed in Google Earth Pro can be shared with all 700 million Google Earth users around the world.

On the Google Earth team, we often find ourselves in the situation where we have large images of current events that we want to publish quickly. In these cases, we use this same regionation technology to quickly publish imagery to the world. One such example was the2009 Presidential Inauguration. This image of the National Mall on Inauguration day would have been far too large to download and view as a single file, but as a fully regionated KML file, you can easily navigate this stunning image of the inauguration without slowing down your computer.


Enhanced Measurements

Lastly, in Google Earth 5.2 you now have the ability to save paths and polygons created by the measurement tool as KML. This will allow you to share measurements with co-workers and return to them later if you want to review measurements you’ve made. In addition to being able to save your measurements as KML, we’ve also added the ability to view measurements of existing paths and polygons. This allows you to quantify the information that until now you could only inspect visually.

To purchase Google Earth Pro, visit our online store or sign up for a 7-day free trial. You can also read more about Google Earth Pro on our website at http://earth.google.com/pro.

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Read more: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/06/google-earth-pro-52-powerful-tool-for.html

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Announcing Google Earth 5.2

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Today we are proud to announce the latest version of the Google Earth desktop application, Google Earth 5.2. With this release, we are bringing exciting new features to both the free version, Google Earth, as well as our paid professional version, Google Earth Pro.

Over the next couple of days we’ll be diving into these features in more detail, but I wanted to give you an overview of what Google Earth 5.2 brings.

Visualize your hiking, biking, and running tracks

Google Earth has always been a great tool for viewing your outdoor activities, whether it be hiking, running, biking, skiing, sailing, or just about any other way you choose to explore the world. With the release of Google Earth 5.0, we added the ability to connect your GPS device directly to Google Earth and import your track. Now, with Google Earth 5.2, we’ve added the ability to view elevation, speed, and other data as a graph directly in Google Earth. Just connect your GPS device to upload your track, and select “View Elevation Profile” from the menu. This will bring up elevation and speed graphs. If your GPS device records additional information such as heart rate or cadence, these will also be available to view in the graph. You can also see statistics such as total elevation, maximum slope, and average speed. You can select a portion of your ride and get statistics for just that section.

We’ve also improved the way you can play back your trip. Just click on the time animation button, and relive all those twists and turns in your journey. You can even quickly and easily generate a tour of your trip. This video shows a tour that I generated from my bike ride into work.

Integrated web browser

Google Earth is a “geo-browser” - a great tool for exploring places, businesses, and photos around the globe. However, sometimes when you want more information, you may want to click through to a link to see the full Google Places page for a business, or learn more about a photographer whose photo you really enjoy. In the past, this has required opening a link in an external browser to see the full page. For Google Earth 5.2, we’ve added an embedded browser that lets you browse the full web. Click on a link, and the browser pane slides across the screen. When you want to return to the Earth view, just click the “Back” button and you’re back exploring the world!

New improvements to Google Earth Pro

While Google Earth has been downloaded by over 700 million people all around the world, not everyone is aware that we also have a professional version, Google Earth Pro, which gives the powerful tools needed by engineers, real-estate professionals, governments, and others to process and visualize large geographic data sets. Google Earth Pro 5.2 brings new features to our professional users, including:

• Parcel, demographic, and traffic data layers for the US
• Improved GIS importing
• Automatic generation of super-overlays for very large image files
• Automatic regioning of large point and vector data sets
• Support for MGRS grid system

We’ll be following up shortly with more details on these great new features in Google Earth 5.2. However, if you to get started right now, go to http://earth.google.com to download it. Happy trails!

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Read more: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-google-earth-52.html

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Stockholm 3D in Google Earth

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9/11 Memorial in Google Earth

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Next year it'll be 10 years ago ... And still no replacement of the two towers ...

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Experience the 9/11 Memorial in Google Earth. Now people can visit and explore the 9/11 site - virtually.

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Read more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4uo-H2oVxQ

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Earth view comes to Google Maps

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Five years ago, shortly after Google’s acquisition of Keyhole, we introduced the first integration of Keyhole technology into Google Maps -- Satellite view. Suddenly, you could see what places actually looked like from the air, and easily switch between this view and the map view. Mapping has never been the same. A few months later, the desktop Google Earth application was released, and now we have over 600 million downloads. Today we are proud to announce the next major step in the marriage between Google Earth and Google Maps -- Earth view.


Those of you who aren’t as familiar with Google Earth might be wondering how Earth view differs from the satellite view that’s currently available in Maps. First of all, Earth view offers a true three-dimensional perspective, which lets you experience mountains in full detail, 3D buildings, and first-person dives beneath the ocean. The motion is fluid, and you can see the world from any viewpoint. Because Earth view is built right into Maps, you can switch back to cartographic view simply by clicking on the “Map” button. The view will even adjust automatically to a top-down, north-heading perspective as you transition. In essence, you now have all the best mapping tools at your fingertips, all in one place.

New to 3D? We’ve collected some cool places around the world for you to explore with a single click. Ever been to the Taj Mahal? How about the Sydney Opera house, or South Africa’s Table Mountain? You can even dive under the ocean and check out the wreckage of the Titanic. Just click one of the icons in the left panel and you’ll be flown from space down to your chosen location, which you can explore further by clicking and dragging the map or by using the navigation controls in the top of the view. We have 36 places set aside for you to explore, and you can cycle through them by clicking the "More places" link. We've also included a short video introduction to Earth view.



Earth view uses the same technology that powers the Google Earth desktop application. It allows you to view the same high-resolution imagery, terrain, and 3D cityscapes, all from right within your browser. We built the new Earth view on the Google Earth API and browser plugin, which make it easy for web developers to include Google Earth in their own websites. If you’ve already installed Google Earth, you can start using Earth view right away. Otherwise, with one click you can download and install the browser plugin and you’ll be ready to start exploring in 3D. The Earth plugin is currently supported on most Windows and Mac web browsers.

Get started today by going to maps.google.com/earthview, and explore your world in 3D.

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Read more: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/04/earth-view-comes-to-google-maps.html

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See New York City, NY in Google Earth with new, high-quality 3D imagery

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See New York City, NY in Google Earth with new, high-quality 3D imagery (street level detail)

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Read more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k2_HHrk8Y8&feature

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Uploading your data using the Maps Data API just got easier

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The Google Maps Data API is a great way to host your geographic data on Google’s scalable, high-performance servers, making your data accessible across platforms using HTTP or one of our client language libraries.

In December, we announced spatial and attribute searching using the Maps Data API, which enables you to filter a large set of features by radius, bounding box, or text attributes, and sort them by their distance from a location. This means you can now create an interesting Maps API mashup (like our College Finder code sample), without running your own server or spatial database.

Today, we’re excited to make it much easier to import your geographic data as a single CSV file or KML file, instead of uploading many individual features. You can now upload thousands of features using a single POST request, and then immediately perform scalable searches over your data (while controlling exactly who has access to your maps).

If you haven’t yet tried the Maps Data API, now is a great time to give it a spin, since uploading data just got a whole lot easier. [...]

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Read more: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/03/uploading-your-data-using-maps-data-api_30.html

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Satellite Car Chase

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Honest directed and animated this short using Google maps images.

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Read more: http://vimeo.com/9411892

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WWII historical imagery in Google Earth

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  Anden Verdenskrig i farver

  20.01.10 kl. 18:33 på DR2

  Japans situation blev mere og mere desperat. Flåden og luftvåbnet var udslettet, og moderlandets forsyningslinjer blev effektivt blokeret af amerikanske ubåde. Civilbefolkningen sultede og led nød.

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  Anden Verdenskrig i farver

  19.01.10 kl. 18:35 på DR2

  I begyndelsen af 1945 lå Hitlers Tredje Rige på sit dødsleje. I vest nåede de allierede tropper til Rhinen, mens den Røde Hær nåede til floden Oder kun en times kørsel fra Berlin.

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  Anden Verdenskrig i farver (11:13)

  18.01.10 kl. 18:33 på DR2

  Krigen i Stillehavet havde raset siden december 1941, men nåede i foråret 1943 til et vendepunkt. Den japanske fremgang var blevet stoppet. Nu skulle japanerne drives tilbage.

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  Anden Verdenskrig i farver

  15.01.10 kl. 18:35 på DR2

  I 1944 trængte de allierede tropper frem fra vest, mens den Røde Hær nærmede sig Tyskland fra øst. Men forestillingen om en hurtig sejr blev stoppet af intens tysk modstand.

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  Anden Verdenskrig i farver

  14.01.10 kl. 18:33 på DR2

  Stalin havde i årevis bedt om en ny front i Vesteuropa, så presset på østfronten kunne blive lettet lidt, og i foråret 1944, var Operation Overlord klar. Det lykkedes de allierede at skjule, at angrebsmålet var Normandiet.

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  Anden Verdenskrig i farver

  13.01.10 kl. 18:33 på DR2

  Både de allierede og det nazistiske Tyskland ledte efter en enkel måde at tilføre fjenden så stort et slag, at det kunne føre til en hurtig afslutning af krigen.

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  Anden Verdenskrig i farver

  12.01.10 kl. 18:35 på DR2

  Både de allierede og det nazistiske Tyskland ledte efter en enkel måde at tilføre fjenden så stort et slag, at det kunne føre til en hurtig afslutning af krigen.

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Many of us have heard stories, read books and watched films which show the many impacts of WWII across the world. Today we're giving you another way to understand this period in time - by exploring a new set of historical aerial images, taken over European cities during World War II, via the historical imagery feature in Google Earth. They can now be compared directly to images from the present day.

The historical imagery feature gives people a unique perspective on the events of the past using today's latest mapping technology. We hope that this World War II imagery will enable all of us to understand our shared history in a new way and to learn more about the impact of the war on the development of our cities.

Images taken in 1943 show the effect of wartime bombing on more than 35 European towns and cities. Imagery for Warsaw, which was heavily destroyed at the time, is available from both years 1935 and 1945. They remind us all of the devastating impact of war on the people in those cities and also the remarkable way in which urban environments are reconstructed and regenerated over time.

You can explore the German city of Stuttgart, which was subject to over 50 air raids during the War.




Naples was the most bombed in Italian city in WWII and the impact of these attacks can be seen here:



The French city of Lyon was the center of France's resistance movement against the German occupation. See how it was damaged and rebuilt over the years:



Imagery from 1935 and 1945 for Warsaw in Poland is particularly compelling. The city was amongst those most badly damaged in the war and comparisons with today are striking.

Contrast can be seen for example by comparing the imagery of the Historic Centre of Warsaw, a UNESCO World Heritage site, described as an 'outstanding example of a near-total reconstruction of a span of history covering the 13th to the 20th century'. The Royal Castle was completely burned to the ground, for example, and subsequently reconstructed, between 1971-1988.



Read more about one Googler's impressions here.

To access all the imagery for yourself, and compare to the present day cityscape, click the clock icon in the top-level toolbar to activate a time-line in the Google Earth display. Move back in forth in time by dragging the time slider from left to right or by clicking the back/forwards arrows.

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Read more: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/02/wwii-historical-imagery-in-google-earth.html

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Ski for yourself on satellite pictures of the 2010 Winter Olympic ski runs in Whistler

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For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Canada, Spot Image invites you to the ski resort of Whistler, where the alpine skiing events are being held. Enjoy the 3D interactive experience of skiing down an image acquired by the KOMPSAT-2 satellite on 28 December 2009.

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Read more: http://www.spotimage.com/web/en/3065-2010-winter-olympics-in-vancouver.php

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Amazon deforestation reveals pre-Columbian geoglyphs on Google Earth

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Read more: http://www.ogleearth.com/2010/01/amazon_deforest.html

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Biblioteksstatistik i Google Fusion Tables

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Da jeg så fusion tables første gang vidste jeg med det samme at her var noget stort på vej ... Jeg har brugt det nogle gange ( data fra Galathea ekspeditionen: http://tables.googlelabs.com/DataSource?snapid=13604) og jeg synes det er et sjovt værktøj og let at gå til.

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When I first saw fusion tables I knew something great was coming ... I've been using it a couple of times and liked very much ... No doubt Google can and will create a great tool with it.

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Nu viser Google Fusion Tables kun de data der opfylder denne betingelse. Nu er det tid til at visualisere (i menuen Visualize) disse data, og der er et “Map” værktøj. NB for at visualisere skal data være offentliggjort dvs. alle må se data, men ikke nødvendigvis også rette i dem. Det gøres i højre side ved klik på “Share” knappen, og vælg en af de delemuligheder du ønsker.

Efter klik på “Map” dukker nu et Google Maps op, og der er en “Get Embeddable Link”, hvor du så henter indlejringskoden “eng: Embed”. Denne stump kode kan så indsættes på dit eget domæne. Jeg har sat en websidde op med den indlejret kode til Google Maps og “Bar” visualiseringerne fra Google Fusion Tables.

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Read more: http://www.microformats.dk/2010/01/02/biblioteksstatistik-i-google-fusion-tables/

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