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Yesterday a friend sent me this amazing article in Wired chronicling the two week effort to right the 55,000 ton Cougar Ace which was floating on its side in the North pacific carrying nearly 5000 cars. The story is really captivating on its own as real life drama (Poseidon Adventure meets Die Hard [...]

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I’ve talked about the Carbon Project here in the past related to their Developer tools and Gaia viewer. It was nice to see this article in Mass High Tech highlighting their recent National Science Foundation grant to further development of their ((Echo))MyPlace software. Sounds like they are targeting this summer for a wide [...]

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I was just sent this beautiful view of Notre Dame de Reims which was highlighted at Virtual Globetrotting the other day. After rotating around and exploring the building visually I was curious to find out more about it. Whenever you are looking at something in Live Maps the easiest way to learn more [...]

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If you are a Google Earth Pro user, you can quickly obtain the approximate address for many locations. In the geeky GIS world, we call this “reverse geocoding”. This means that you visually pick location and Google Earth Pro provides you its best guess for an address for this place.

Give it a try. Just navigate to the appropriate place, press down the Ctrl key and right click (Ctrl + click on the Mac) a location.

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