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Loopt co-founder Sam Altman was onstage yesterday at Apple’s DevCon to launch the Loopt client app for iPhone. You can see it in action in this 2 minute video from ZDNet:
Loopt helps you keep tabs on your friends whereabouts from your mobile. One big difference between Loopt and most similar apps is that you don’t need to continuously update your location manually; on location aware devices this is automated eliminating the ’stale location’ problem many other apps suffered from. Loopt currently works on about 65 handsets with more on the way.
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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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The latest monthly update of maps is complete. Highlights include all maps for North America republished with the latest NavteQ street data, new JD Barnes aerial imagery in Canada, and lots of new aerial imagery in India and China. Below is a list of new and expanded Birds Eye and 3D cities as [...]
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Here’s a Press release from New York City Transit about their new online trip planner that i came across via SlashGeo. If you’re in NYC you can use the app at http://tripplanner.mta.info/ The VE Gov blog has lots of detail on the application along with some nice screenshots. The 3D visualization features are [...]
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The Google Earth blog posted a nice video of the new textured cityscape of Raleigh, NC featuring the Birds Eye overlay. The video looks good, but its so tiny that its difficult to make out the details. You can tell that Frank Taylor, the video’s creator, has logged a lot of hours with [...]
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