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The worldwide telescope from Microsoft Research was shown at the TED conference this week by Roy Gould and MSR’s Curtis Wong. Not due to be available widely until this Spring, the WWT has already floored everyone who has seen it from complete neophytes like myself to career astronomers who can best appreciate its [...]

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The latest monthly update of maps is complete. Highlights include all maps for North America republished with the latest NavteQ street data, new JD Barnes aerial imagery in Canada, and lots of new aerial imagery in India and China. Below is a list of new and expanded Birds Eye and 3D cities as [...]

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Here’s a nice gift for coders from developer evangelist Marc Schweigert - Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control! If you aren’t familiar with Intellisense, its like having autocompletion while coding. for instance, if you begin to instantiate an object you are presented with an interactive list of all of the parameters the [...]

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Don’t take the title too seriously; I haven’t run off to trademark it (too late) or set up a series of conferences, but I do see some new technologies coming together with some old favorites to deliver a platform for web mapping and GIS like we haven’t seen in the past. Recent news [...]

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Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is starting to become a de facto standard for transmitting spatial data. Both Google Maps and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth have added support for viewing KML data. In both of these cases, it is necessary to make the KML file available on the web so that Google and/or Microsoft can [...]

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John King, the newsman turned GIS expert for CNN during the U.S. presidential primaries, has been adding functionality to his Google election coverage maps. In Tuesday’s Ohio primary specifically, King and anchor Wolf Blitzer were reporting on a lawsuit filed by Barack Obama to keep polling locations open because of the ice storm hitting [...]

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Building an application to work with Google Earth is pretty easy to do. This article will walk through the creation of a very simple application to capture different views in Google Earth.
To begin with, you will need to download Microsoft’s Visual Studion Express Edition for C# (available for free at http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/).
Once Visual Studio [...]

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If anyone is interested in writing your own Google Earth Control that can be embedded in your applicaiton, there is good information on how to do so using C# at Google Groups for KML.
Also, you can see delphi code to do the same thing at googleearthairlines.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2008%2F03%2F06%2Fbuild-your-own-google-earth-control%2F’;
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Google’s new partnership program for local governments, Cities in 3D, announced today, is initially aimed at U.S. local governments (though the rest of world is invited to participate) to encourage the creation and sharing of 3D models of their geographies. While anyone can now upload a model to Google 3D Warehouse, it must meet certain [...]

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A third option for integrating customized tools with Google Earth is pretty simple, you just write an application that hovers over Google Earth. It just like a floating tool bar or form that you can use to access your custom applications.
In the sample below, the application is sized to look like an extension [...]

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This method for customizing the Google Earth Interface, embedding the Google Earth render window (the actual map window) into your own applications, was apparently pioneered Luca Rocchi and his Google Earth Airlines application. Luca figured out that you could grab the GE map window using its Windows handle to place it into your [...]

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As posted previously, there are five general ways in which to provide custom control to Google Earth.

Use built-in network links and server side scripting to serve custom data dynamically.
Embed the Google Earth render window into your own application.
Build customized applications that always hover over Google Earth.
Use JavaScript in the built in web browser.
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Ever since people became aware that it was possible to allow external software applications to interact with Google Earth using their API (which seems to be in perpetual beta stage), they have been trying to figure out how best to integrate their custom applications into Google Earth.
While almost all of the initial efforts [...]

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If you would like to publish your own Google Map, but do not have a server to place it on, there are some greate options to get you started without needing a server.
I ran across this web page recently that has a number of excellent tutorials for using Google’s Page Creator. The Google [...]

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Open source geospatial systems and tools have really taken off in recent years, as has the open source community at large. While an open source geospatial solution may be enticing to some GIS managers, there remain a number of hurdles for them to be effectively employed.
Chief among these hurdles are the lack of [...]

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