Google Maps and Google Earth, launched in 2005, offer an astonishing interactive map of the planet, stitched together from aerial and satellite footage licenced from Nasa and various private companies. Google Street View, released in America last year, takes this a step further by providing photographs taken at eye level, which has prompted media alarm about invasion of privacy; the company insists the UK version, yet to launch, will obscure faces and licence plates.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
In the news: Google, 10 years in: big, friendly giant or a greedy Goliath?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/17/googlethemedia.google
Sunday, August 10, 2008
In the blogs: Google Maps Now Features More Blue and a Simplified Layout
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_maps_simplifies_layout.php
The Google Maps team today rolled out yet another update. This time, they have decided to simplify the layout by putting more focus on the search form and taking away the tabs underneath it. Thanks to this update, the maps on the page get a bit more screen-estate and searching for directions has become a bit easier as well. This update comes just a few weeks after Google Maps added walking directions to its feature set.
In the blogs: Create Embeddale Flash Google Maps
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2008/07/create-embeddale-flash-google-maps.html
With Umapper it is possible to create interactive Flash Google Maps, display those maps on your website or social network, export the map created to Flash ActionScript 3.0 or KML. It is one of the better map creation tools that I have seen. It excels in the amount of options it gives the user and has a very impressive feature to automatically add Wikipedia articles to a Google Map.
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