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I briefly mentioned this feature are in a rundown of new stuff in the latest Live Search maps, but wanted to provide some more detail and an example of how to use it.
Our Local search platform is currently crawling the web for geo data in a variety of formats like GeoRSS and KML. [...]

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Building Energy Analysis Tool for Sketchup
Green Energy and a buildings carbon footprint is currently a hot topic with developers tapping into the market of customers wanting to live in an energy efficient home. Indeed, energy certification is now required by law in the UK under the European Performance of Buildings Directive.
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With the slew of new and emerging Web 2.0 services come new and innovative names that begin to slip into general consciousness. A few weeks ago we started hearing the term Wikitecture of which more on that soon and now its WikiMapia.
While WikiMapia has been around for a while with over 4 million [...]

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New Craigslist Google Maps Housing Mashup: ByOwnerPort.com

ByOwnerPort is a another new Google Maps mashup that maps housing listings from Craigslist. What is different about other Craigslist mashups is that it also displays user-ads related to real estate for sale, for rent roommates wanted. Click the Start button at the top left of the [...]

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We’re happy to announce that the Google Mapplets documentation has been given a makeover similar to that which the main Google Maps API documentation underwent in September. We took this opportunity to greatly expand documentation for Mapplets and add many more relevant examples. In specific, we tried to convert all existing Maps API [...]

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One of the first posts on this blog was about the 5.1.1 stable version of DNRGarmin.
Long story short, if you work with GIS and you use Garmin units for your data acquisition, this program is a must-have. It can upload/download data in text, DBF and shapefile formats to/from Garmin GPS [...]

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Craig D’Andrea, SketchUp Quality Assurance Tester and poster over at the Official SketchUp Blog has noted some amazing work by Andrija Posarić a SketchUp user from Zagreb.
In short Andrija had 3 days to go from a blueprint of a building to a 3d model which in turn was to be printed on 30 [...]

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Who knows your neighborhood better than you? That’s why we’ve been releasing features that let you add your own content to Google Maps. For example, you can use our map-creation tools to make maps of recommended places to visit or leave ratings and reviews for your favorite restaurants. Your maps and reviews will [...]

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Developers building on the Virtual Earth platform now have the V6 javascript MapControl in their toolbox. Rooftop geocoding, Safari v2 support, and multipoint routing are among the enhancements in this release.
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Keith Kinnan’s Blog - Keith is a developer on the VE team and does a lot of [...]

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Searching on Google Maps has just been enhanced with more integrated content from across the geoweb! Google Maps calls this content “Community Maps” and will add much more depth to your next search for places and points of interest. Back in July I posted about the inception of “geo search” that started to [...]

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There’s so much of the world to see, and sometimes it just doesn’t all fit onto a map at once. Previously, people have written custom Mapplets or Maps API pages to visualize their dense geographic databases, and that’s still what we’d recommend if you are a web developer and want the full interactivity [...]

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The latest update to Microsoft’s digital globe, Virtual Earth, now has limited support for KML; lots more information at OgleEarth and the Google Earth Blog. My reaction? Ehhh. Virtual Earth has some cool features (like Birds-Eye view), but I find the browser-based interface less than ideal, and it doesn’t even work in 3D [...]

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Maps has just added support for view and interval based refresh in KML Network Links. This means that NetworkLinks can now provide you with dynamic, living content. You can, for instance, refresh marker locations every few seconds, or load only the geometry contained within the current viewport. This reduces load on your server [...]

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The Maps Of War site has animated embeddable Flash maps illustrating historical trends, like this one showing the history of the Middle East over the past 5000 years:
And the Library page has a growing collection of links to other animated history maps from across the web.

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I know this isn’t the kind of star gazing we usually report on around here, but for those of you who follow celebrity gossip, here’s your chance to spot celebrities in real life. Top 50 Places to See Celebrities in NYC is a user-created map that lists all the hottest restaurants, clubs, bars [...]

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