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Yahoo! MapMixer + Quick User Guide
What is MapMixer? “The world is a big place. There are thousands of maps out there that provide unique details about any given destination. MapMixer is a new site that combines those maps with Yahoo! Maps to give you a better view of the world. It’s easy to mix your [...]

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Google Moon Update (minus the cheese)

Higher Resolution Images
Moon ‘Walk’ View
No Cheese (was on max zoom - Wallace & Gromit ate it all?)

Data/Map Types:
Visible - A mosaic of images taken by the Clementine mission. This is a black-and-white version of what you would see if you were in orbit around the moon. This composite imagery [...]

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MapNik - using OpenStreetMap in Google Maps API (as a Custom Tile)MapNik with OpenStreetMap (Oxford,UK) using Google Map API (Custom Tile) works really well. (gif transition created by Mapperz)“Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. Above all Mapnik is about making beautiful maps. It is easily extensible and suitable for both desktop and [...]

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The world on your desktop is a new article featured in the September 8th version of The Economist Magazine that reports on the ever-emerging “geoweb”. While Google Earth is the bulk of this piece, Google Maps and Google Maps mashups are also articulated and contextualized within the geoweb landscape. Take a read!
Related:WIRED on Google [...]

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Embed Ask City Maps
Ask City map now allows you to embed the maps into your blog/website similar to Google Maps.

Though ‘Ask’ has a clever function not seen before - searching within a polygon.
This map was to find Bourne Ultimatum films showing in cinemas in Greater London
How is this function achieved?Draw a Polygon of the search [...]

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Posted by Mano Marks, Google Geo API Team
On May 31, at Developer Day, Google previewed early beta documentation for KML 2.2, the latest update to our geographic data presentation language. That preview introduced a number of important features to KML, including:

PhotoOverlay
Camera
Atom attribution elements
Limiting session length in NetworkLinks
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Formula One Grand Prix CircuitsA great mashup for F1 fans to learn more about all tracks worldwide. Zoom in to see the track on Google Maps or link off to Wikipedia to check out detailed articles about the event or circuit. [via]

Google Earth Flight Simulator Tips - Including this great video compiled by Frank Taylor [...]

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As previously mentioned, Google Earth version 4.2 allows you to add and navigate high definition photos. As with other content in Google Earth, these photos are specified in KML. In this case, the important KML tag is PhotoOverlay. According to the KML documentation:
The PhotoOverlay element allows you to geographically locate a photograph on the Earth [...]

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Google Earth allowed at Work!

Great News to users of Google Earth but the restriction is limited to Internal Use only.
Google End Users Licence Agreement (EULA)
Version 4.1 “You may not use the Software or the geographical information made available for display using the Software, or any prints or screen outputs generated with the Software in any [...]

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Microsoft’s Photosynth

Photosynth is a remarkable product that is being developed by Microsoft in their Live Labs. It can merge hundreds of photos from many different angles to create a truly incredible, fluid, visual experience. I found its navigation to be extremely easy and flexible.
I can only imagine what capabilities this might provide if they merge [...]

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This post contains links to all of our tutorials to date - created as a reference page for blog links or bookmarks to ensure the tutorials can be easily found.
The post will be updated whenever a new tutorial is added.
We hope you like them, if there is any tutorial you like to see just let [...]

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The majority of the posts in the blog include self captured movies so we thought we would put together a simple tutorial to answer all the questions we get on how they are made.
Creating an engaging movie takes three elements - a high and constant frame rate of capture, an interesting flight path and a [...]

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ONGMAP.com: Learn more about places on Google MapsOnGMap is an insane Google Maps mega-mashup that will help you discover endless amounts of information about a specific location you are zoomed into on the map. The interface is available in Japanese with lots of data sources pulling from Japan (these are also viewable in English).
Start by [...]

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Picasa Mapplet Search - Google MyMaps New!Allows users to Search for Geotagged photographs that have been made publicly available via the Picasa Web Albums

Other Picasa enhancements

The size of the images you can upload - from 10MB to 20MB per image.
Upped the free storage quota to 1GB (and counting!)
All photos uploaded through Blogger now [...]

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New Google Maps mashups from Thailand:
Chiangdao’s Bangkok Map has it going on!Chiangdao’s English language Bangkok Map is a mashup between Google Maps and Moffle.com that brings you with a user friendly and useful tourist map for anyone visiting this great world city. Descriptive map pins will show you the locations for tourist attractions, metro stations, [...]

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