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VeoGeo Map (Video & Map Tracking)

VeoGeo takes video sharing to the next level. Now you can map the activities you video, and share even more of the experience!
See what people from around the world are doing, and see where they’re doing it!

Capture your outdoor activities on your video camera
Capture a [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Friday Fun - Map Game Stratris
Like Tetris but with geographical regions as blocks and your knowledge of these different regions.
Africa
Europe
France
Netherlands
USA
UK
Tip - Start of easy and be fast with the cursor arrow keys!
*Based in Flash
Thanks to Raymond Penners
Mapperz News Blog

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::: viaGoogle launched My Maps on April 5th/07 and since that time Google Maps users have been busy building and sharing Google Maps mashups with this easy-to-use service (found within the My Maps tab on Google Maps). Google is now making it easy for you to discover these user-created maps which are relevant to where [...]

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::: viaPicasa 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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ArcGIS Explorer is described by ESRI as being a “lightweight client for ArcServer”. 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 [...]

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Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team

Over the past few weeks, we enabled geocoding in the API for India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Ireland. That means there are potentially 1.1 billion more users that might now be able to locate themselves on your map - that’s about 1/5 of the world’s population. (I [...]

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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 [...]

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New N95 Free Mobile Software (including Maps)

Nokia Download! New
“Download! for PC enables you to discover mobile content using a PC. When you connect your mobile device to the PC, Download! for PC automatically synchronises with the corresponding software on your device. This makes it easy for you to find, download and manage content (maps) that [...]

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