School is out and it’s time to pack those bags and get ready for summer vacation! We’ve been working hard to get everyone the latest imagery from all over the world. Does your family have any annual traditions? If not, now is a great time to start some, check out our latest additions for some great ideas on where to travel this summer.What a better way to start a tradition than to visit the happiest place on earth, Disneyland in Anaheim, CA! Use Google Maps to scout out the area, plan out your multi-day adventure all in the comfort of your own...
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog Editors note:The Google team encounters fun and new ways of using the Google Earth and Maps API. Here’s an example of how a century old educational map and globe publishing company realized more students wanted to learn online and transformed their teaching methods to include a program built on the Google Earth API. Don Rescigno, from Herff Jones | Nystrom, explains how students and teachers benefit from technology in the classroom with StrataLogica.With today's technology enabling information to travel...
Since we launched Street View on Google Maps in the U.S. in 2007 we’ve added 26 more countries and enabled you to explore images across all seven continents. Today we’re excited to share with you the latest expansion of Street View because it’s our biggest update yet.New imagery is now available for 13 of our established Street View countries: Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Romania, South Africa, Taiwan, Japan, the United...
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Over the years we’ve made some significant improvements to our map style. This summer, we’re starting a new project to give you more map and simplify the overall look and feel. As part of a larger effort, Google is bringing you an experience that’s more focused, elastic, and effortless.You can still find your favorite west-coast oyster bar in Portland Maine...BeforeAfterAnd take a nice drive to get to there...BeforeAfterWhether you use Google Maps...
Monday, 27 June 2011
[Cross-posted from the SketchUp blog]Today, we’re unveiling a totally redesigned Your World in 3D website. If you’re new to geo-modeling -- the term given to creating 3D buildings for Google Earth and Google Maps -- the Your World in 3D website has all the tools and info you’ll need to get up and running quickly. The new website showcases several examples of what fellow modelers are building and will help connect with other geo-modelers around the...
We love to give you options on how to view information in Google Earth, but we also want to make sure we're organizing that information in a way that is useful and easy to read. We realize that a city may be referenced in different ways, in different languages. Presenting all of these names on the map in a single view can sometimes make the map harder to read, not to mention, may even detract users from other, useful information. In the interest...
Thursday, 23 June 2011
During one of the Map Maker Community team’s recent college campus events in Chicago, we had the pleasure of meeting Phil Swanson, an international studies and business student, who travelled nearly 200 miles to join our mapping event at the University of Chicago. As soon as we started talking with Phil, his passion for mapping and computers came shining through, so we were excited to learn more about what drives him to add to, edit, and create using...
Thursday, 16 June 2011
[Cross-posted from the SketchUp Blog]It’s a great day for the citizens of Argentina -- and for Canadians in the nation’s capital. We’ve released new Building Maker imagery in six new cities:Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCórdoba, ArgentinaMar Del Plata, ArgentinaMendoza, ArgentinaRosario, ArgentinaOttawa, Canada...but that’s not all! To help these cities get modeled, we’re having the first ever modeling competition for Building Maker. Starting today, you...
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)We’re always fascinated by the unique wonders of space and the world—what can we say, it’s the geek in us! Naturally, when we learned that part of the world will be treated to a rare 100-minute long total lunar eclipse starting at 11:20am PDT today, we were both excited and disappointed that this rare occasion wouldn’t be visible from our Mountain View campus like last year’s eclipse. We suspect we aren’t...
Almost every day you encounter new places and businesses, whether it’s a new store you spotted on your commute to work, or a restaurant you visited with friends over the weekend. To date, you’ve been able to star places on Google Maps, rate them via Google Places, or add them to a customized map with your own icons and annotations through My Maps.But keeping track of all the locations you care about and memorizing which places you starred or rated...
Monday, 13 June 2011
(Cross-posted on the Google Places and Small Business blogs.)Whether it’s to find a great place for dinner or to grab a cup of coffee, I often look up places directly on Google Maps. Evaluating my options and making a choice just got even easier thanks to the list of associated terms that now appears directly in the local search results.Starting today, Google Maps search results in the U.S. and Great Britain will include some of the phrases which...
Friday, 10 June 2011
Last month, we celebrated the trees of the great American wilderness on Arbor Day. Unfortunately, many of us don’t get the opportunity to visit majestic forests like these very often, which is why we're making them available on Google Earth.Since we first launched 3D trees in Google Earth 6 last November, we’ve worked to bring this experience to more cities. Today, we are happy to announce that the latest group of cities with 3D trees include: New...
Thursday, 9 June 2011
[Cross-posted from the SketchUp blog]You could call our friends at Igloo Studios “multi-taskers”. While they mainly concentrate on creating products and plugins for designers and architects, they also have a podcast, a SketchUp training program and a popular book.Their latest project is a virtual tour of the U.S. Green Building Council’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Note: you’ll need the Google Earth plugin installed to view).This project is...
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Only a tiny fraction of our oceans have ever been explored. As a matter of fact, we know more about the surfaces of Mars and the Moon than we do about our own ocean floor. So in honor of World Oceans Day, we collaborated with Columbia University to add more ocean seafloor terrain to Google Earth than has ever been available before. With the addition of Columbia’s Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT) synthesis data, you can explore half the ocean...
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)Often when I’m taking public transit, I arrive at my stop on time only to anxiously check my watch and look down the street for my bus, which is running late once again. Those extra minutes I’m forced to wait seem like an eternity, and the only information I can access on my phone is when the bus was supposed to arrive.Starting now, Google Maps for mobile and desktop can tell you when your ride is actually...
Monday, 6 June 2011
The Google Earth and Google Maps Imagery Team has just published its first batch of satellite and aerial imagery for June, and as always, there are all kinds of fascinating sites and features to check out. Our first example image shown below is of the Sacred Heart church and its famous gilded dome located on the Notre Dame campus in Notre Dame, Indiana. A church has continuously occupied this site since 1830 and the current basilica foundation was...
Friday, 3 June 2011
Most office rivalries rise to a boil at conference tables and water coolers. At Google’s Boulder office, our grudge matches play out across topo lines. Last week, our third annual “Flagstaff Challenge” blasted off up Flagstaff Road, Boulder, Colorado’s signature hill-climb. Over 1,500 feet of elevation gain, the Flagstaff Challenge (mapped below) attempts to answer our office’s ultimate water cooler question – what’s really faster: two wheels or...
On May 21 and 22, 2011, we hosted a series of Google Map Maker events in Rabat, Morocco. The events included presentations at the g|Maghreb developer days, and a mapping workshop which took place at the nearby Fondation Mohamed VI. The same evening, we launched a one-week online mapping competition (read on for the results!).This year’s mapping workshop in Rabat built on the success of a similar event, which took place last year in Casablanca. ...
Thursday, 2 June 2011
(Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog)Editor’s note: From time to time we like to showcase how our customers are building fun and innovative products with Google Maps. Colleen Logan, VP of Marketing for Icon Health & Fitness, explains how a Google Maps API Premier powered treadmill helps exercisers reach personal fitness goals. Most people use Google Maps for reasons of pure function: Where is that new restaurant? How do I get there?...
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Brussels is one of Europe’s best kept secrets. As Belgium’s charming capital city, many have enjoyed living there, ranging from Victor Hugo and Karl Marx to Jean-Claude Van Damme. Now, you can discover the riches of Brussels in a virtual 3D visit with Google Earth.Several thousands of 3D buildings have been added to the city’s map. Using Google Maps with Earth view or Google Earth’s “3D Buildings” layer, you can now visit the city to experience its...
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