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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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If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the geotagging feature of Picasa. It allows you to tag photos you have imported into Picasa with a specific location using Google Earth. When you upload your photos to Picasa Web Albums, visitors who view your photos online can see where the images were [...]

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Displaying real-time data in Second Life is intriguing as it represents a direct cross over between the real world and the virtual. It also links in well with our current work with the National Centre for E Social Science and as such we now have a new sample real-time weather map in Second [...]

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Version 2 of Live Maps based on the Virtual Earth 6 Engine - New Features include KML overlay

New cleaner version of Live Search Maps
and the 3D gets smoother….

Brighton Pier in 3D in FireFox.
Look for the Loader

The Globe show the data loading/rendering for the view.
quick guide -
Shortcut keys…
Home [Button] - Birds Eye -straight down
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Greenpeace is using Google Maps and satellite tracking tags on endangered whales in the Southern Pacific Ocean to follow the current locations of the whales. The Great Whale Trail mashup is an interesting way for anyone to track patterns of whale migration and learn just exactly where and how far they go in [...]

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Christa Dichgans
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Christa Dichgan’s art requires close scrutiny: her map-based paintings are countries whose outlines are filled with figures, objects and other tiny details to which a thumbnail such as this (of her 2005 work, “Europa,” a mix of oils and paper collage on canvas) can scarcely do justice. Via Strange Maps.

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