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3DWH: Google Earth on Steroids – ABC News http://bit.ly/cHrjKs [video]::: via :::

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London Tube Strike MapWorkers on the London Underground system are currently on a 24 hour strike, causing disruption to the journeys of London’s commuters. The BBC are using the Ushahidi incident reporting system to provide a Google Map of the disrupti…

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I’ll be off the internet again for a week (this time traveling in Indonesia) so preëmptive apologies for the lack of updates, but before I’m off: I managed to get the first two panoramas done from Kashgar. Here’s my favorite spot in Kashgar: Tea house…

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TomTom just announced their high end GO and GO LIVE with HD Traffic information which include the new models GO LIVE 1000 which we already talked about, and GO LIVE 1005 with larger 13cm (5?) screen.
Connected GO LIVE 1005 comes with free HD Traffic…

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CommonSpaceIf you live in Philadelphia you should definitely let CommonSpace try to find you a great night out for you and your friends. CommonSpace lets you add multiple starting points to a Google Map and then finds things to do in areas that are con…

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AbogoAbogo can help you discover the average transportation costs for different addresses. You can use Abogo to discover the costs of where you live now, or where you would like to live. Abogo measures the money an average household in a neighborhood w…

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By now you’ve likely heard about the earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand over the weekend. While there have been no deaths reported, the magnitude 7.1 earthquake has caused quite a lot of damage. GEB reader Kelvin sent us a file that is a …

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Chinese Huawei announced a new GPS enabled Android phone with the latest 2.2 OS. The big deal is that it is probably going to be the least expensive phone out there with this latest Android OS.
It does 3G connectivity with HSPDA and WiFi 802.11n, let…

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The film below is a celebration of some of the world’s great cities edited to Giacomo Puccini’s “Nessen Dorma.” Footage was collected by film maker Craig McCourry during his past year exploring the megacities:As Craig states – there is a certain freedo…

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An unmanned mini plane guided by GPS satellites has been developed by European Space Agency (ESA) to provide monitoring of land areas and disaster zones.
Designed by the German start-up company – the autonomous micro-air vehicles (MAVs) with a …

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Navigon just announced two new affordable GPS navigation systems at IFA in Berlin.
One of them is the NAVIGON 20 Easy which is the entry level GPS navigation system with a 3.5? screen, lots of POIs, and better maps views. This one is supposed to co…

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Remember RunKeeper? It is now out for Android. That’s all. They have two versions. The ad supported one is obviously free. And then the pro version – which costs $10 will give you voice cues on your performance and of course no ads.
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Indie rock band Arcade Fire used HTML5 ?and the Google Maps API in its latest video to transport us to the neighborhood we grew up in. Director Chris Milk worked with the Google Chrome team to blend music, art, and place into an interactive experience called The Wilderness Downtown. The video mashup takes us into the memories of our youth through Street View and 3D rendered map tiles.

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I always enjoy reading Jeffrey Murray’s articles in Fine Books and Collections magazine, and his latest, on the three-dimensional scale models made of military fortifications and cities for Louis XIV and his successors, is no exception: it’s a fasc…

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The University of Minnesota’s UMNews on Rebecca Krinke’s public art installation, Unseen/Seen: The Mapping of Joy and Pain: On the surface (both literally and figuratively) Rebecca Krinke’s latest public art piece is simply a giant laser-cut map …

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