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SketchUp 8 released
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Google's SketchUp 3D Basecamp in Boulder, Colorado has just begun, and they kicked it off with a big announcement -- the release of Google SketchUp 8!The biggest difference in this version of SketchUp is the amount of geodata that can be pulled into it. They've rewritten the UI for geolocating models, and they'll pull in a patch of terrain data along with color aerial photos via the Google Maps
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Hurricane Katrina, Five Years Later
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Yesterday marked the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in New Orleans, Louisiana, causing over $80 billion in damage and killing nearly 2,000 people. Google Earth Blog offered a great deal of coverage to the event, as Google was able to contribute a variety of imagery updates and other resources to help. I had just started running Google Earth Hacks at that time, and us
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13 Votes
3D buildings in Yokohama, Japan
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Google has pushed out their latest 3D buildings update (via @3DWH), and this one includes one new major 3D city: Yokohama, JapanIf you want to fly there and see Yokohama for yourself, you can simply use this KML file.In addition, it appears they've loaded the rest of the buildings from Bowling Green State University that we told you about a few weeks ago.The buildings in both locations look excel
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Using an Android GPS App - How to Secretly Track a Cheating Spouse Using
This is about another brand of smart phones that has GPS capability. The Android phone by Google, or otherwise known as the Droid phone, has the ability to load GPS functionality into the phone. Apparently, you can keep track of a cheating spouse by us…Original post blogged on GPS Cell Phone Tracking.
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Google Earth 1.1 Released for Android
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Roughly seven months after it was first introduced, Google Earth for Android has just received a major update to version 1.1.The big update in this version is underwater bathymetry! This feature was first introduced on the desktop in Google Earth 5, but this is the first time that the bathymetry feature has become available on a mobile phone. It also includes a new "Explore the Ocean" layer tha
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More awesome images from Astro Wheels; this time it's the Great Barrier Reef
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We mentioned astronaut Douglas Wheelock (aka @Astro_Wheels) a few months ago, showing off a great photo he captured of an atoll from the Line Islands.A few days ago, he posted a stunning image of the Great Barrier Reef, just off the east coast of Australia.As I often love to do, I spent some time to find this location in Google Earth and lay out his image as a Image Overlay. It took a while a to
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The Golf Courses layer returns to Google Earth
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Back in March of this year, Google made some substantial changes to the "Places of Interest" layer. While it certainly had some nice new features, the majority of you weren't very happy with the changes.A few days later, Google responded to your criticism and a few days after that they replaced most of the original layers.However, one layer remained missing: Golf Courses. We wrote a blog entry b
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Use Street View imagery in Building Maker, plus more cities added
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A handful of nice updates have just come out for Building Maker. The first is something that should help make your buildings look much better; you can use Street View imagery to texture the sides of your buildings.When SketchUp 7.1 was released it gave you the ability to do this, and Google has been using this technique for some of the "lifelike facades" they've been adding in some cities. Maki
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