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Earth Calling Google...
Talkback CONTRAST Google's splendid performance with M$'s HIDEOUS excuse for a search engine, which, you'll note, has so many paid links amongst any of its initial search results you end up asking yourself. Ever since M$ put Google in its sights as its next...
[May 11, 2004, 4:46]
Move Over, Google: Here's MSN Virtual Earth
Talkback P.S.even better would be if the cam inbedded the co-ordinates so when the pics are on the computer somehow Windows, for example, could tap into the Virtual Earth's database and show you the 45 degree 'Eagle Eye' view of where it is in real life!
[July 26, 2005, 12:01]
Build A Google Earth Interface On Oracle Database XE
White Papers For the purpose of this paper, the author represents a location on the Earth with latitude and longitude. Lines of latitude circle the earth like layers of a wedding cake, with the base, or latitude 0, being the equator.
[October 18, 2006, 1:00]
Gov't Unveils Google Earth Climate-change Tool
News Named "Climate Change in Our World", the tool uses information from the Met Office's Hadley Centre and the British Antarctic Survey to provide two new layers, or animations, to all users of Google Earth.
[May 20, 2008, 9:05]
Nvidia Makes Google Earth 'emotional Reality'
News Nvidia has developed a graphics system which experts claim could enhance 3D applications such as Google Earth to levels that go well beyond any existing simulation. Google Earth's chief technologist, Michael Jones, described running the application...
[August 4, 2006, 16:15]
Google Inks Deal To Buy GeoEye Satellite Imagery
News Google uses satellite imagery in its Google Maps and Google Earth product. Google's current imagery in Google Earth spans a range of resolution, the coarsest being 15 square metres per pixel, which is only good enough to see larger geographic...
[September 1, 2008, 14:20]
Google Earth Dodges Injunction
News A federal judge in Massachusetts has rejected a request for an injunction preventing Google from distributing its popular 3D Earth-mapping and visualisation program. Also on Monday, Google released a new version of Google Earth that it says has a...
[June 13, 2006, 11:05]
Google's First Mashup Goes Green
News Google has launched its first mashup - a map-based Web site with information about earth-friendly locations in five of the US's top travel destinations. By "green" Google means "things that are earth friendly", Calvert said.
[May 31, 2006, 9:25]
Move Over, Google: Here's MSN Virtual Earth
News Microsoft is playing catch-up to rival Google with the release of a beta world mapping service, MSN Virtual Earth. Virtual Earth is a wrap up of a number of location-based services, including mapping of the world's surface, map annotation and...
[July 25, 2005, 18:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog On closer inspection, it turns out to be ours after all - Google Earth has arrived. Nothing is more persuasive than a gripping metaphor, and with Google Earth and World Wind it will be possible to present the greatest metaphor on the planet.
[July 1, 2005, 19:15]
Microsoft Brings Virtual Earth To The UK
News Microsoft says it is determined to take on Google Earth, which offers a similar set of online mapping services. We absolutely want to serve a richer set of tools than Google," said Peter Williams, international marketing lead for Virtual Earth.
[May 24, 2006, 13:00]
Google Sponsors Robotic Race To The Moon
News The X Prize is best known for the $10m Ansari X Prize, in which 26 teams from seven countries competed to fly a reusable spacecraft 100 kilometres above the Earth. The contest invites private teams from around the world to build a robotic rover...
[September 14, 2007, 15:12]
Google Mapping Spec Made Industry Standard
News KML is used to manage the display of geospatial information in Google Earth, the company's software for flying over the surface of a virtual globe. Keyhole's technology was built into the Google Maps site and the Google Earth software.
[April 15, 2008, 10:53]
Why Google Earth Means Business
News It might seem odd that Google would plough thousands of man hours into creating an application such as Google Earth, which most people use to get a neat helicopter view of their house. Pole Star, a specialist in asset tracking, is looking into the...
[September 18, 2006, 14:20]
Google Fends Off Katrina Criticism
News Even after it replaced the post-Katrina images, users could continue to view Katrina imagery captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — along with map overlays such as damage assessments and Red Cross shelters — at a...
[April 3, 2007, 9:29]
Google And Sun Plan Partnership
News Picasa for photo management and Google Earth for satellite-based maps and geographic information. Earth. Google already has a significant collection of software that is dependent on a network rather than being tied to an operating system.
[October 4, 2005, 9:35]
Why Is Google Up For Cerf?
News The search giant is already on its way to doing that with Google Earth, a three-dimensional mapping service, still in its testing phase, that lets people find services like restaurants and ATMs by ZIP code.
[September 12, 2005, 12:10]
Microsoft Launches Mapping Beta
News Meanwhile, in addition to Google Local integrated map and search, the search company has Google Earth, a downloadable program that allows users to get a simulated view of flying over cities. Microsoft on Thursday will unveil a beta version of...
[December 8, 2005, 9:25]
Google Must Wake Up To Security
Leader If it lived up to its own hype and made its online security the finest on earth that would be a huge bonus, especially in the battle for corporate data management. It's time for the company to come down to earth.
[March 14, 2006, 13:45]
Google Earth (beta): A First Look
Talkback Picture Postcards from Heaven with Google Earth The Google Earth Licence limits the use of the image data, but states: “You can personally use an image from the application as long as you preserve the copyrights and attributions including the...
[February 22, 2006, 16:44]
