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Michael Jones discusses geographical context and Google’s objectives in this fascinating presentation:

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Google Geo Mashup Montage
The following video played on the monitors of the Geo booth at the recent Google I/O event. It features a montage of things that can be done with various geo products like Earth, Sketchup, and of course Maps. Skip ahead to 0:50 to see a smattering of cool mashups and My Maps:

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Related: YouTube Playlist: All Google Geo Videos

New and updated mashups:

• WeatherUnderground.com + Google Maps = WunderMap! [Press release here..]
• Simple, fun “Find that Country” Google Maps Game
• A real-time plot of product reviews on 200+ retailer websites
• The Society Google maps luxury holiday rentals
• New eBay Google Maps Search Mashups: BuyItNearby & Auction Search Kit
• MapOfVideo: Mapped video clips + Wikipedia
• RoadTripHelper maps hotels worldwide and finds you the best price by searching major travel sites.

• Mappery.com integrates a Google Earth view in your browser!- Mappery is a cool maps index that plots locations of map collections (PDFs, JPGs, scanned paper maps etc..) It’s a great concept to view maps that otherwise would be very hard to browse and view.

• Panedia is working on mapping every intersection in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia!

Aaron has also added his 5000th panorama to nearly cover all of Australia. Watch for him at next weeks’s Google Developer Day. Here is his panorama of last year’s event.

• Google Maps live video mashup, Seero have created a GPX uploader to let you upload pre-recorded videos plus a GPX track to sync them both together on a map. More details are in this Seero Blog post!

More stuff:

• Media/News Maps Mashup pioneer Patrick Cain of the Toronto Star introduces a new blog and feature for TheStar.com: Map of the Week
• Reddit.com - Geospatial - a good way to track new Google Maps mashups and other fun geo stuff!
• Gizmodo shows us how Google really places Map markers!
• Press Coverage for the great Book Maps concept, The 21 Steps: Newsweek.com: Telling Stories the Online Way & ReadWriteWeb: Love it or Hate It: Penguin’s Putting Books on Twitter and Google Maps
• Learn how to use Google Maps to plan your next trip!

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In this video, Googler Mano Marks demonstrates techniques for using view based refresh (VBR), and other dynamic querying techniques in KML.

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Occasional users of Google Earth may not be aware that content available in the Layers panel is frequently changed. Entirely new layers are often added and existing content is expanded and updated. It is a great idea to explore the Layers panel to see what is new.
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The “Quick and Dirty KML Creation” presentation is now available on YouTube. Check it out.

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

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We picked this up via the James Fee GIS Blog, the Wii Remote has become a jack of all trades recently acting as a VR Headset Sensor, Whiteboard Input Device and now to control Microsoft’s Virtual Earth.
The movie below is well worth a look:

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Matte paintings are used to create “virtual sets” and “digital backlots”. They can be used to create entire new sets, or to extend portions of an existing set. Traditional matte painting is done optically, by painting on top of a piece of glass to be composited with the original footage (Wikipedia).
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It is interesting to see how close the Edushi (short for ECity in Chinese and pictured above) maps that we recently covered are to Sim City, see ‘Edushi.com - Possibly the Best City Maps in the World?‘
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We love YouTube, it has opened up simple tutorials to the masses allowing techniques to be easily shared. One such nugget is a tutorial on ‘How to Build a City in 5 Minutes’ embedded below:
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Yet another video tutorial created by yours truly. In case you are wondering, yes, that is my voice Please pass along any comments that you have:

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Want to have your own video content featured on our new You Tube channel? Here are the details, as posted on the Google Earth Help groups:
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Yet another new video tutorial. Please post any feedback you have:
 

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Here is our latest video tutorial. Please post any feedback you have:
 

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