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Google Street View Now In 7 Continents, Including Antarctica

Google Street View Now In 7 Continents, Including Antarctica

Now we can see the friendly inhabitats of antartica, the Penguins. The below image is a Google Street View of the antarctic continent. Google has just announced that it reaches all continents. With this update, it now includes Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica. Here is a complete list of 7 continents: * Africa * North America [...]

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Google Earth now has updated photos of Mars

Google Earth now has updated photos of Mars

Recently we informed you that Google would post the images regularly through a XML file. Now after a month of publishing, Google has released a lot of new pictures from Mars on Google Earth 5. As of now the updates on the Google Earth is available in a file that shows the updates closely. http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/12/mars-in-google-earth-imagery-update.html

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Google Maps Street View tour of UNESCO World Heritage

Google Maps Street View tour of UNESCO World Heritage

Take a virtual walk around some of the world’s most remarkable natural and cultural landmarks using Google Maps, Google Earth and Street View. Google is partnered with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to put imagery of World Heritage sites into Street View. And’ve released new imagery for 19 UNESCO sites around Europe, [...]

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India comes up with a Google earth rival called Bhuvan

India comes up with a Google earth rival called Bhuvan

Google Earth‘s Indian rival is here! Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) took a huge leap into satellite imagery of geographical regions with the launch of `Bhuvan’, India’s mapping application website. Similar to Google Earth or Wikimapia, Bhuvan goes a step ahead. The application allows users to zoom far closer than the aerial view from a [...]

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Google Transit: Plan a trip using public transportation

Google Transit: Plan a trip using public transportation

Couple of days ago I told you guys about planning your trips inside the city a new product in google labs. Here is some thing similar called the the Transit Layer in Google maps and its a part of Google Transit. Whereas the main Google Transit product has the goal to provide full schedule information [...]

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Google Earth imagery update!! – June 2009

Google Earth imagery update!! – June 2009

Recently in May Google announced images update to Google earth…. and now there is one more update!! Here are few updated places updated Imagery: Americas: – Canada: Kamloops (BC), Fort St John (BC), Surrey (BC), – USA: Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Champaign County (IL), Bentonville (AR), Harrison (AR), Roswell (GA), Hidalgo County (TX), Willacy [...]

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Google Earth Photo  Images Update in May 2009

Google Earth Photo Images Update in May 2009

Google has a new satellite builder in Google earth. This update brings new 3D image updates in Google Earth. Here are following updates: Updated Imagery: America: – USA: Muscatine County (IA), Parts of Champaign County (IL), Parts of Benton County (AR), Parts of Washington County (AR), parts of Washington State, and parts of Michigan – [...]

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Google Street View in Full Screen mode

Google Street View in Full Screen mode

Google Maps now* offers a more immersive additional mode: you can open Street Views in full-screen via the top-right expand icon.

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Google celebrates Giovanni Schiaparelli’s Birthday and the new release of google maps

Google celebrates Giovanni Schiaparelli’s Birthday and the new release of google maps

Today is the 174th birthday of the famous Italian astronomer and cartographer Giovanni Schiaparelli. In 1877, Schiaparelli began producing some of history’s most iconic planetary maps, and he single-handedly invented the naming scheme we use to identify features on Mars today. His maps are famous for their detail and beauty, as well as for showing [...]

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google earth 5.0 has mars data and historical map materials

google earth 5.0 has mars data and historical map materials

Google Earth 5.0 published, updates contain Google Mars and historical map materials.. The new function is available in Google Earth 5.0…. So far Googles Mars with Google Earth 5.0 stood for the download ready. In the meantime in Google Earth offers “Mars", with which the user can experience more over the development of the science [...]

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