Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager
Did you ever wonder what Lewis and Clark said about your hometown as they passed through? What about if any other historical figures wrote about your part of the world? Earlier this year, we announced a first step toward geomapping the world’s literary information by starting to integrate information from [...]
Google Book Search in Google Earth
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · GIS and GEO technology
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Targeted Solutions with ArcGIS Explorer
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · GIS and GEO technology
ArcGIS Explorer is described by ESRI as being a “lightweight client for ArcServerâ€. Interestingly, ArcGIS Explorer is not actually tied to any other ESRI products. It and an SDK to develop customized tasks are free to download, and (as far as I can tell) free to deploy.
What this means is that ArcGIS Explorer can be [...]
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Published Versus Unpublished Content
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · GIS and GEO technology
When you create content in Google Earth (such as a placemark), this content resides on your computer unpublished until you decide to share this content with others. So if you mark the location of your home, no one can see this placemark until you explicitly share it with others.
Google does not collect or view unpublished [...]
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Playing Tourist with Panoramio
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · GIS and GEO technology
I just can’t help myself. I am having too much fun playing virtual tourist with the Panoramio layer in Google Earth. If you are not familiar with this feature, be sure to check it out.
Simply navigate to a favorite destination (say Venice, Italy). In the Layers panel, check Geographic Web > Panoramio. Just start clicking [...]
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Shape2Earth Instructions
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · GIS and GEO technology
Shape2Earth is a quick and easy way to convert GIS files into Keyhole Markup Language for viewing in Google Earth.
Instructions on how to use Shape2Earth Version 1.0 have been posted at this Shape2Earth Users Blog.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2007%2F09%2F24%2Fshape2earth-instructions-5%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Shape2Earth+Instructions’;
addthis_pub = ”;
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Google Book Search in Google Earth
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · GIS and GEO technology
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager
Did you ever wonder what Lewis and Clark said about your hometown as they passed through? What about if any other historical figures wrote about your part of the world? Earlier this year, we announced a first step toward geomapping the world’s literary information by starting to integrate information from [...]
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Targeted Solutions with ArcGIS Explorer
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · GIS and GEO technology
ArcGIS Explorer is described by ESRI as being a “lightweight client for ArcServerâ€. Interestingly, ArcGIS Explorer is not actually tied to any other ESRI products. It and an SDK to develop customized tasks are free to download, and (as far as I can tell) free to deploy.
What this means is that ArcGIS Explorer can be [...]
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How long will it take at rush hour?
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · GIS and GEO technology
Posted by Eli Brandt, Software Engineer
Let’s say you want to leave from Berkeley to catch the sunset from the beach at Half Moon Bay, to relax on the sand and watch the sun sink into the Pacific. We all know Google Maps will tell you how to get there. Now it’s better at helping you [...]
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Published Versus Unpublished Content
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · GIS and GEO technology
When you create content in Google Earth (such as a placemark), this content resides on your computer unpublished until you decide to share this content with others. So if you mark the location of your home, no one can see this placemark until you explicitly share it with others.
Google does not collect or view unpublished [...]
Tags:
Playing Tourist with Panoramio
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · GIS and GEO technology
I just can’t help myself. I am having too much fun playing virtual tourist with the Panoramio layer in Google Earth. If you are not familiar with this feature, be sure to check it out.
Simply navigate to a favorite destination (say Venice, Italy). In the Layers panel, check Geographic Web > Panoramio. Just start clicking [...]
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Shape2Earth Instructions
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Earth
Shape2Earth is a quick and easy way to convert GIS files into Keyhole Markup Language for viewing in Google Earth.
Instructions on how to use Shape2Earth Version 1.0 have been posted at this Shape2Earth Users Blog.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2007%2F09%2F24%2Fshape2earth-instructions-4%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Shape2Earth+Instructions’;
addthis_pub = ”;
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Shape2Earth Instructions
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments · GIS and GEO technology
Shape2Earth is a quick and easy way to convert GIS files into Keyhole Markup Language for viewing in Google Earth.
Instructions on how to use Shape2Earth Version 1.0 have been posted at this Shape2Earth Users Blog.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2007%2F09%2F24%2Fshape2earth-instructions-3%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Shape2Earth+Instructions’;
addthis_pub = ”;
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