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SchMap - Interactive Maps and Guides
Maps and guides that are interactive and pull up information based on the area that you are exploring.

“Exploring a Schmap Guide is a uniquely interactive experience: maps and guide content are dynamically integrated, allowing intuitive, real-time access to reviews and photo slide shows for places of interest.”

Using Yahoo Maps, and joining real-time data feeds to gives the users up to date information.

There is also a desktop application that can download
Schmap 2.0 (desktop) you can:

• Browse this Schmap Guide on your PC, online or offline.
• View Schmap Guides for 200 worldwide destinations.
• Bookmark places of interest, plan trips and take virtual tours.
• Custom print your own full-color travel guides.
• Publish and share schmapplets with your favourite places

or use the Schmapplets for your website which uses Google maps.

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Leica Titan has actually been out for a while. There is a post on OgleEarth from December 2006 when the first product was just coming out. My first try with it was not so smooth. But recent updates have gone much better.

It appears to be your standard 3d earth browser, but is oriented more towards data sharing and collaboration. It has a built in instant messanger to share your spatial data with others.

Leica Titan Globe

Search for a Place and zoom

Load a shapefile. It seems to be able to handle many different formats.

You can change feature colors (not based on attributes).

Click on a loaded feature to view attributes

You can also load photos and place notes on the Earth to send to others. Performance was not to bad, though navigation was a bit touchy and took some getting used to. It seemed to me to be a bit like ArcGIS Explorer, but without the extensibility.

Leica TITAN is available for download.

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If you have upgraded to Leopard OS on your Mac, you need Google Earth version 4.2. Earlier versions of Google Earth do not work on Leopard.
Download the latest version of Google Earth.

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