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After the Google Maps in the Sciences post last week The J. Craig Venter Institute contacted us to let us know how they are using Google Maps as a navigation tool of large visualisations of complex data.
The Fragment Recruitment Viewer was developed by the Institute for the CAMERA project, which is a data [...]

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There’s a lot to discover in Google Maps: addresses, businesses, points of interest, user maps, and even photos, books, and videos. To help sift through all of this, we’ve added a new search option that will help you find exactly what you want. Check out the new “show search options” link near the [...]

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Almost exactly a year ago, I joined the Maps API team to be a middleman(woman) between the literally thousands of Google Maps API developers and our internal Geo teams. So this post is both a summary of the 2007 and my first year here. I originally anticipated this being a short post until [...]

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Embed a panoramic Google Maps Street View! - Hot on the heels of a 6 city Google Maps Street View update comes the launch of “embeddable panoramas”. Now you can embed a panoramic image from street view in the same way you can embed a Google Map! Here’s a sample view from just [...]

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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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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:
Uploaded by ‘FreeTutorials‘ it makes an interesting use of a simple height map in Bryce to quickly create [...]

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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:
“We’ve seen some of your videos on YouTube that are educational or just plain cool uses of Google Earth and think they’re great!
In honor of that, we’re going [...]

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Yet another new video tutorial. Please post any feedback you have:
 

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From a fellow Googler: you can hide the text description of a placemark in the Places pane in Google Earth by using the <Snippet> element of KML. Read more in the KML documentation.
This <Snippet> element allows you to control how many lines of the text in a placemark description box is displayed in [...]

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

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Somehow I managed to let the first anniversary of this blog pass by without some kind of acknowledgment. But to make up for this, here is a re-run post from October of last year.
This tip is one that always fascinates users who have not heard of this functionality:
Perhaps the most overlooked method of [...]

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In case you have not noticed, Google Earth offers a new Weather layer that allows you to see cloud formations, radar depiction of precipitation, current conditions and even forecasts. To view all this, in the Layers panel, check Weather.
If you turn on the Clouds sub folder, navigate to ground level and tilt up, [...]

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You can remove the history/autofill of your search terms at anytime by clicking Edit > Clear Search History.
Once you have searched for a place or business, you can edit your search results. This is handy if you want to save or edit search results for another purpose. For example, if you wanted to [...]

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With help with my fellow Googlers, I’ve created the following video tutorial. Please check it out and let me know if you have any questions:
 

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