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Google Maps mashups have been declared a symbol of modern art. A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City titled “Design and the Elastic Mind” is featuring 14 mashups.
Here is an excerpt from the online exhibition (which requires the most recent Flash player to view):
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Both Global Voices and Programmable Web have recently looked at how environmental activists are using web 2.0 tools to bring attention to environmental concerns. It is no surprise that Google Maps plays a central role in many of the examples that both examine. Here is a quick run-down of the web sites mentioned [...]

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Recent My Maps Viewer

Twittervision and Flickrvision have taken the Google Maps mashup world by storm. The new My Maps Viewer works the same way by showing you very recent My Maps that Google users have created. Sit back and watch the cool maps go by! Google’s Jess Lee tells you more about the [...]

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A busy beach in San Sebastian, Spain
Google Earth received a large image update on the 19th February. The update now seems to have been rolled out to Google Maps.
Here is the full list of changes from the Google LatLong blog:
New high resolution:
Americas:
- Canada: Significant amount of British Columbia, Oxford County (Ontario)
- USA: Madera [...]

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After the Google Maps in the Sciences post last week The J. Craig Venter Institute contacted us to let us know how they are using Google Maps as a navigation tool of large visualisations of complex data.
The Fragment Recruitment Viewer was developed by the Institute for the CAMERA project, which is a data [...]

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The Music Maps Blog - Tom Fern has started a brilliant blog which is dedicated to the “music maps” concept. In each post Chris marries song lyrics, album names and various aspects of music with their geographic significance (all UK so far). One map shows all locations within each post since the blog [...]

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As I plan my summer vacation, I’ve begun to wonder where my flights might put me as I fly to my destinations. Will I fly over the Grand Canyon? Yosemite? Nebraska? Assuming that my flights proceed in a more a less direct line, I could make a good guess using Google Earth.
Using the [...]

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The “Quick and Dirty KML Creation” presentation is now available on YouTube. Check it out.

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If you are a Google Earth user, you can view all kinds of fascinating free geo data available on the web. For example, this morning, I went exploring on the US Forest Service website and poked around the FSGeodata Clearinghouse. This collection offers interesting vector and raster-based mapping data for USFS lands in [...]

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Yesterday, I attended a public workshop here at the Googleplex entitled “Quick & Dirty KML Creation”. Pamela Fox and Mano Marks showed us “how to use tools within Google Maps and Google Earth to create, import, and edit KML.” This was part of the Google Geo Developer Conference series.
The presenters described using Google [...]

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Following last week??™s post on Google Maps Saving the Planet an organisation called Google Maps Bike There contacted us about their campaign to get bike routes added to Google
Maps.
Here is how they describe themselves on their website,
“GoogleMapsBikeThere.org was created to ask Google to help us make the world safer for bicyclists by adding [...]

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Yesterday, several of us presented at the California Council of Land Trust conference in Sacramento. Member groups of this organization work on land conservation issues, which is a cause near and dear to my heart.
Land trust organizations often use GIS to plan projects and educate donors and the public about their work. Non [...]

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Google has announced a new Google Maps feature which allows you to refine search results on a map by ‘Neighborhood’ or ‘User Rating’.

For example, if you search for pizza restaurants in New York you might be given a bewildering number of results. Using ‘Neighborhood’ you can refine your search by restricting the results [...]

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The Google Maps API Blog reports of a new Google Static Maps API that will be of interest to Google Maps developers.
Google says that “the Google Static Maps API provides a simpler way to add maps to your website. Rather than use JavaScript, the Google Static Maps API creates map images on the [...]

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I am excited to see that David Rumsey’s maps have come to life in Second Life, the extremely popular online, 3-D world. It’s such a cool idea: historical maps in a virtual world. I’ve spent hours playing with the Rumsey maps that appear in Google Earth, sliding back and forth between today’s borders [...]

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