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The Google Earth browser Plug-in supports a JavaScript API that allows you to manipulate camera angles, open balloons, add 3D models, draw KML, toggle to Sky mode and much more.

To see first hand what it can do and view some sample code, check out this sample page. For beta documentation, take a look at the developer guide. For additional help, visit the Google Earth Plug-in help group.

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Posted by Raphael Leiteritz, Product Manager, Google Zurich

To help football fans celebrate the European Championships 2008, you can now use Google Transit and Google Earth to navigate around the tournament in Austria and Switzerland.

Using Google Transit, fans will be able to use Google Maps to plan their tournament travels - from finding tramway stops and the nearest bus stop, to finding departure/arrival times. To find your way from one match to the next simply click on the ‘Get Directions’ link within the Stadium details in the European Championship Fan Map.

We have coverage for all participating cities including Innsbruck, Wien, Salzburg, Klagenfurt, Basel, Bern, Geneve, Zurich. Data for Google Transit is provided by SBB and VBZ in Switzerland and by ?BB in Austria.

These are the latest additions to the Google Maps transit trip-planning service, which already includes more than 50 cities in the U.S., Europe, and Canada.

We’ve also added all eight stadiums hosting the games to the “3D Buildings” layer of Google Earth. Click on any of the buildings for information about the stadium, including the matches scheduled to be held there. The info bubbles associated with each stadium also link to the 23 Days website which contains other tools that are essential for fans.

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With approaching 50 posts in our Architectural Visualisation thread it is interesting the ones that we rate highly, the following is one of our favorites to date.

Produced as a third year project by Frank Morel at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology the animation goes to show the power of minimalism:

Based around the redesign and expansion of an existing 60’s office building in Rotterdam the animation by Frank Morel with Architectural Design by Martijn de Geus, Wessel Loevendie, Frank Morel and Rob Wesselink stands out amongst the trend for photorealism.

In short we think its great, especially the cars…

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BBC Science has an interesting article on how the whereabouts of more than 100,000 mobile phone users have been tracked in an attempt to build a comprehensive picture of human movements.

It turns out that most people also move less than 10km on a regular basis, according to the study published in the journal Nature.

Mobile phone data is not widely available and while interesting to track general movement where it become of more use is via GPS and the movements of crowds. Currenty GPS handsets are expensive and battery hungry but in the next few years we are going to be increasingly ‘location aware’ allowing better understanding of our movement in cities.

See Mobile phones expose human habits

Also for those interested see our post on the Nature Network ‘Connected to the World but not the City‘ for a view of location based services and the prospect of mass market gps enabled devices.

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Our list of tutorials has been updated to include the recent Greeble a City and Greeble a Skyscraper walk through.

We now have 17 tutorials online, you can view the full list from here.

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New Zealanders take note: Charting the Peaceful Sea: Maps of the Pacific, 1642-1846 is an exhibition taking place at the Dunedin Public Library until August 30.

Twenty-one maps by more than eleven different explorers are on exhibit, which takes viewers from the first appearance of New Zealand on a map in the seventeenth century through to charts of the fearsome ice barrier of unexplored Antarctica from the mid-nineteenth century. The exacting cartographic work by eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook forms a major portion of the exhibition with nine first- and early-edition maps by Cook on display.

Free admission. More details from the Otago Daily Times.

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