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Las Vegas Tour
Famous US landmarks
NFL Stadiums
Amusement Parks
Boston Freedom Trail
Advertising for the Sky
Scenes of the week
More Theme Parks

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Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York “is a collective portrait of downtown New York. Twenty-one international artists were invited to create a personal view of the city and draw a map of downtown New York, uncovering a territory that is both real and imaginary.” At right: Old New Jersey (2007) by [...]

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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 [...]

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Google Earth Version 4.2 supports Flash animations in placemark balloons. This means you can embed Flash movies, interactive games, demos or any other Flash content in a balloon. Frank Taylor of gearthblog.com mentions one cool implementation of this new feature. I look forward to seeing what other creative uses the Google Earth community [...]

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First off, I’d like to thank Pamela Fox and the whole Google Maps team for creating such an awesome API, and especially for getting the Open Source Utility Library going.
Next, a little background. In my quest to implement custom controls, I discovered the ExtMapTypeControl code in the Google Maps API Open Source Utility [...]

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In our latest release (2.88) of the API, we’ve added “click” events to GPolyline and GPolygon, much to the enthusiasm of developers in the forum. Since a few developers started speculating on how we implemented click detection in the API, we’re giving you all the juicy details right here. (Warning: Algorithms ahead!)
Polyline Hit [...]

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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 [...]

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A friend pointed out to me today that there is a hidden feature in the new Google Earth 4.2 release. If you click on the Earth and hit ctrl+alt+a, you will get a dialog box for a flight simulation mode in Google Earth flying either an F-16 or an SR22 aircraft. You can [...]

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Lost in all the excitement about Sky is the new Add Photos feature in Google Earth version 4.2. This allows you to add photos in Google Earth that you can fly into and browse. This feature works great with high definition photos, as you can zoom deep into these images and view tremendous [...]

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Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
There may be some of you out there that have been reading this blog just for its literary merit, putting off creating your first Maps API mashup because you thought it was more difficult than it is. Well, procrastinate no further. I’ve put together a tutorial that [...]

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Google Earth 4.2 includes Sky, which allows you to view and browse stars, planets and more. A fellow Googler has posted an excellent guide to publishing KML-based content in Sky. Complete with examples, this document describes how you can display objects in Sky and how KML elements work in Sky. View this document.
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In addition to working hard to add more and more powerful features to the Maps API for our developer community, we also strive to make it even easier for non-programmers to embed maps into their webpages. To that end, the Google Maps team announced a new feature yesterday, called Embeddable Maps, that allows [...]

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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 [...]

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