Changing your perspective, once again...

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Mere guf til de kommunale byggesagsbehandlere ... når det også kommer til DK ...
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45 is the new 90 ... Google is closing yet another gap ...
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A few months ago we released a new type of aerial imagery to our users, first to the developer community through the Google Maps API, and then later as an experimental feature in Google Maps Labs. Today, we’re excited to announce the release of 45° imagery for of select cities in the U.S. and worldwide to all users of Google Maps. As you may have guessed from the name, 45° imagery is imagery depicting a location from a 45° angle rather than from the top. This type of imagery allows you to explore the sides of buildings and other locations -- you can even rotate around a particular point of interest using the compass ring to view it from four different perspectives. To see the new imagery, simply zoom into an area while in Satellite mode. Where we have 45° imagery available, the imagery will switch from an overhead to 45° angle as you zoom all the way in. You can then pan smoothly across the map to get a richer view of the area. Here are a few of my favorite spots:

SeaWorld, San Diego, California:

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Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, California:

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Rialto Bridge, Venice, Italy:

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Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa:

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See below for a map of areas where 45° imagery is currently available.

View 45° Imagery on Google Maps in a larger map. 45° imagery is available for portions of the U.S., Europe and South Africa.

We think you will find this imagery particularly helpful when exploring a new area on the map before a visit. After checking out the landmarks from a new angle, it’s helpful to turn on existing map layers like Photos or Wikipedia to get more context on the area. Even when looking at familiar areas, seeing driving directions overlaid on 45° imagery will give you a whole new understanding of the neighborhood. As we expand our coverage over the coming months, I hope you enjoy this new perspective on the world.

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Read more: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/07/changing-your-perspective-once-again.html

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Mapplers, an Online Atlas of Hand-Drawn Maps

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Lad os sammen tegne verden ...
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Draw your own maps and be part of another kind of personalized crowd sourcing ...
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Follow Team HTC - Columbia on Google Maps

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HTC hjerte banker for Google ...
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Pro cycling on the map like never before ...
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Experience the Tour de France like never before. Track all nine riders from Team HTC - Columbia and see their exact locations and real-time telemetry data. Check out the live map below:

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Read more: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/mytrackstour/

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If Christopher Columbus had the Internet.

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Google Sea View inkluderet ...

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Google Wave ...

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Read more: http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1763349

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Get a laugh on your way from Tokyo to New York

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Prøv dette på maps.google.com:

1) Rutevejledning

2) Angiv 'Tokyo, Japan' som start

3) Angiv 'New York, USA' som slut

4) Hent rutevejledning

Check punkt nummer 24 og 38 på listen ...

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Try this on maps.google.com:

1) Choose 'Get directions'

2) Type 'Tokyo, Japan' as starting point

3) Type 'New York, USA' as destination

4) Go ahead ...

Now check out no. 24 and no. 38 ...

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Vis stort kort

Transport for London Data Released

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På arbejdet lavede vi for sjov en Layar app med alle busstoppesteder i landet ... Forestil dig at du kan pege på et stoppested med din mobiltelefon og få oplysninger om afgangstider ... Og ikke blot de stoppesteder indenfor synsfeltet ...

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At work for fun we made a Layar app to show bus stops in all of Denmark ... Point your phone at the bus stop and get time schedules and more ...

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Read more: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/syndication/feeds/stations.kml&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.365962,78.662109&ie=UTF8&z=10

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World Cup Soccer 2010 - South Africa (Venues)

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Lidt som at være Palle alene i verden ...

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So much hush about a round thing you can kick around ...

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Read more: http://www.mibazaar.com/worldcupsoccer/venues.html

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Pin your history to the world

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I Odense har vi FynskeBilleder.dk ... StreetView integration ville være en naturlig forlængelse af den i forvejen fantastiske side ...

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In Odense we have FynskeBilleder.dk showing old photos from around the city. Now we have got Streetview an obvious next step would be to pin all the photos to the world ...

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Bicycles at Bank Station

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Read more: http://www.historypin.com/

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Map your data with the Maps API and Fusion Tables

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Punkter på et kort er BARE ikke nok ... Nej, gem i stedet data i FusionTables og vis dem på Google Map ... En dag (snart?) vil data fra ESRI/MapInfo bo i skyen og blive vist på Google ... Ét kort - mange kilder ...

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A few points on a map is so NOT enough ... Store data in FusionTables and visualized in GM ... One day (soon?) ESRI /MapInfo GIS data in the Cloud will too ... One map - many sources ...

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If you have ever tried to plot a very large number of overlays on an API map you have probably reached a point at which the performance of your application begins to suffer. With one hundred or so markers, most browsers cope just fine, and clustering solutions like Fluster can help support more. But if you have thousands of overlays that you wish to show, rendering them individually can be problematic.

The Maps API v3 now offers two solutions to this problem. If you have a large volume of geospatial data that can be served as KML, the KmlLayer class can render up to 50,000 features as an overlay that does not impact performance on any browser. To support data sets that are structured as tables, such as a database or spreadsheet, we have also now added the FusionTablesLayer class for rendering data stored in Google Fusion Tables.

Google Fusion Tables is a fascinating new experimental Google Research project offering storage, search, and management of large structured data sets in the cloud. Up to 100MB of data can be stored per table, and each row in a table can have an associated location, line, or polygon feature. Using the FusionTablesLayer class you can render features on an API map as a clickable overlay. When a feature is clicked, the application can access a copy of the complete row of data associated with the feature.

Fusion Tables also supports an SQL like query language, which you can use to filter the features shown on a map. The below map visualises mountain biking trails uploaded to Fusion Tables by mtbguru.com. The slider allows you to filter trails by their length, and the trails shown on the map are updated accordingly. If you click on a trail a custom dialog is shown which indicates the elevation profile for the trail concerned.

The FusionTablesLayer also supports rendering data sets as a heatmap. The below map of beaches in Brazil illustrates the benefit of this. When rendered as point features it is difficult to tell the relative density of the beaches without zooming in further. However once you switch to displaying the data as a heatmap the high density of beaches west of Rio de Janeiro becomes immediately clear.

The combination of Fusion Tables with the Maps API makes it easy to host large sets of data in the cloud, and visualise them in your Maps API application. It is quick and simple to get up and running with Fusion Tables, and the addition of the FusionTableLayer class to Maps API v3 enables Maps applications to be tightly coupled with data hosted in Fusion Tables. Give it a try, and let us know what you think of this experiment in the Groups!

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Read more: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/05/map-your-data-with-maps-api-and-fusion.html

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Google Maps API Styled Map Wizard

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Afprøv de nye muligheder for at tilpasse Googles kort ...

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Experiment with the new map styles ...

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Mappyfriends - How big is your world?

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Flot flot lavet, men forholdsvist intetsigende ... Hvis jeg bare havde nogle at dele det med ...

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I haven't yet figured out what and how ... but it sure does look NICE ... Enabling the social aspect surely makes it applicable but sorry to say I might have forgotten about it ... now.

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Mappyfriends is a location based recommendations network that shows your friends where you have been and recommends you places to go. Mappyfriends enables you to search your friends experiences in order to create your own.

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Google Risk Game

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Hele verden er din spilleplade ...

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Build your own Google empire ...

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Risk evolved into massive Google Maps game with 55 million cells and instant action Arena tournaments.

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Add a touch of style to your maps

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Ikke dårligt, men det har man nu hele tiden været i stand til hvis man har kunnet nøjes med de filter options som fx IE har stillet til rådighed ...

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Great, now we only need CSS like styling on each map theme ... One day map tiles might contain vector information ... That'll require a totally new set of 'raster'/vector formats though ...

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Google Maps are instantly familiar to millions of Internet users worldwide. The user interface and the look and feel of our maps combine to ensure that when a user sees a Google map on any web site, they instantly know how to interact with that map, and find their way around.

There is however an unavoidable consequence of this consistency. No matter which Maps API site you are on, every map looks the same. If you want your map to stand out from the crowd, your options are limited to customizing the markers and controls, and if your brand has a particular colour scheme that is reflected on your site, Google Maps may not sit well with it.

From today, this all changes. You are now free to unleash your creativity on the base Google map itself, as we are delighted to launch Styled Maps in the Google Maps API v3.

Styled Maps offers you control over both the types of features shown on your maps, and the color scheme used to represent them. The possibilities are endless, as the examples below show:

For information on how to define a Map Style, check out the Maps API v3 documentation. Alternatively, you can use our Styled Map wizard to experiment with different styles, and generate the Styled Map definitions to use in your Maps API application.

We can’t wait to to see the creative ways in which our developers use Styled Maps, and the proliferation of new and interesting maps that will be created. For example, our friends over at NBC Local Media have created The Mood of our Cities Now, which surfaces the most emotional stories of the day. The map displays the location of the story with the color correlating to how the majority of users felt about that story. It’s a great way to see stories from across the nation and how they have been received by their individual communities.

We hope that this is the first of many equally compelling and innovative examples of the use of Styled Maps, and that you love this new feature of the Maps API as much as we do. May a thousand map styles bloom!

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Read more: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/05/add-touch-of-style-to-your-maps.html

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No Flash no more ...

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Google synes at droppe Flash ... Mon Earth plugin'en vil blive omskrevet til JS og HTML5?

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Google seems to turn away from Flash ... will we see the Earth plugin in eliminated the same way? JS and HTML5?

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Moving from ArcGIS Server to Google Maps API

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Det synes mærkeligt at droppe en 100% professionelt funderet platform til fordel for en neogeografisk ditto ... Men lad os se det i øjnene - kun meget få af os har brug for hele pakken og at droppe funktionalitet til fordel for anvendelighed gør beslutningen om at skifte knap så hård ...

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Moving from pro to neo seems like an odd thing to do but over time we will see more and more like this ... Let's face it - very few needs all the tools in the box and giving away functionality in favour of usability makes the decision hard not to follow ...

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Why?
Do I have anything against an ArcGIS Server solution? Not at all. ArcGIS Server still takes up a lot of room in my tool chest. I just wanted to freshen up the look and feel of a stale application and take a deep dive into the ever-changing API v3.

Benefits
Let Google handle the base map and related traffic. Forget scheduling a map caching job to run for hours (and hours, and hours) every week.

Users are comfortable with Google Maps. Web mapping trends show Google Mapscontinues to catch (surely have surpassed by now) MapQuest.

The Google Maps API is powerful and has an active community developing applications with it. Got a question? Send it to the group and you'll get replies within hours, maybe minutes.

Disadvantages

The biggest downer that I see is that you lose complete control over your base map. Sure Google lets your report a problem but there is no guarantee when, or even if, they'll get around to fixing it. Luckily the Street View crew made it around to a good third or so of Union County so our base map isn't in bad shape.

With Google there's always a chance of advertisements popping in at some point in the future. Personally, I have no problem with spatially relevant advertising. That's the price we pay for someone hosting and updating your web map services. Although, end users might not like the idea of an ad for Jim's Tire and Lube appearing near their parcel ownership information. [...]

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Read more: http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=3487

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Google My Maps and BatchGeo.com

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Copy 'n Paste your spreadsheet data and get it on the map ...

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København Street View Roulette – tilfældet råder som tilfældet vil

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Tilbage i '95 eksisterede der en side som kunne sende dig hen til en tilfældig side på nettet ... Sjovt og fancinerende dengang ... En lignende 'service' findes ikke længere (?) - antallet af sider er eksploderet siden da så der er ikke længere behov for at surfe til en tilfældig side ...

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Det er nu tre måneder siden, at Danmark fik Google Street View (natten til 21. januar 2010). Er du løbet tør for ideer hvad du nu vil tjekke ud i Street View?. Så kan du ladeKøbenhavn Street View Roulette vælge et tilfældigt Street View billede for dig fra København.

Hvis du vil se et nyt tilfældigt Street View – så klik på hyperlinket “Lad Rouletten køre!”. Bemærk, nogen gange oppe i højre hjørne – så dukker et lille billede op med “Photos” (dansk Street View tekst: fotos) – Klik der og brugernes geotagget billeder fra Flickr, Panoramio og Picasa webalbum vil kunne ses. [...]

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Read more: http://www.microformats.dk/2010/04/24/københavn-street-view-roulette-tilfældet-rader-som-tilfældet-vil/

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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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