This is the first time I've seen this done. Pretty cool. Fan geo-location."Over 1.4 million unique users have downloaded the free Nine Inch Nails album The Slip, according to the band, since they posted...
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Andre Oboler is a social media expert and Ph.D. in computer science from Lancaster University, UK and a Post-Doc in Political Science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is currently a Legacy Heritage Fellow at NGO Monitor in Jerusalem and edits...
In response to privacy concerns, Google has developed a face-blurring technology for its Street View service."The technology uses a computer algorithm to scour Google's image database for faces, then blurs them, said...
Even that there has not been armed conflict after the second independence of Estonia, the troubles at Estonia - Russia border are not disappearing for a while. "If you look at the Google Earth map and follow the route A-212 to the west of the Russian town Pskov, you can...
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From some of us to all of you: a brief vidcast of a few of this week's original stories, plus some changes on the site itself.I shot this using a point-an'-shoot digital camera, editing it in iMovie-- we went lo-fi,...
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"Images from Google Earth are being enrolled in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett.
Many people are scouring up-to-date satellite images of Nevada to try to spot Mr Fossett's downed plane or wreckage.
The project is being co-ordinated via Amazon's human-powered problem...
"The Space Telescope Science Institute has announced the results of their cooperative effort with Google, Inc., to incorporate astronomical data into a browsable utility. It's a start! And a pretty good one..."
So Google made good on all their mobile machinations and release a product that knits together GeoRSS and KML and it's called Google MyMaps.
Intrigued by the idea of drawing my own maps, I decided to plot out the route I take when I jog.
What's immediately obvious is that...
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German online IT newspage Heise.de reports in its Tuesday edition that the German legislator drafts a law that would forbid the dissemination of precise geodata. Some remark, it is a shift into full gear, back into communist era censorship.
According to the report, the German...
Technology plays a large part in all our lives from the simple act of answering your cellphone to the mundane task of channel surfing with the remote while at home. Now professinal mariners navigating the nations waterways with GPS can utilize a helpful navigational tool by...
Farmers in Raigad district use satellite imagery to prove that their lands are fertile, thus thwarting a state government move to acquire their lands for the development of the Maha Mumbai Special Economic Zone at cheap rates by claiming it was not productive...
"Terrorists planned attacks using Google Earth, Army says
It appears Google has replaced recent satellite imagery of British military bases in Basra with pre-war snaps following Army claims that terrorists were using Google Earth to plan attacks on its facilities.…"
"Rampaging earwig blown from Google Earth
Those among you who think that Google is nothing more than a force for international evil masquerading as an internet ad-punting outfit will have to think again. We have just received news that messrs Brin and Page are using their...
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via Buckleupnow: Microsoft comes out Virtual Earth, which seems to look like a sure shot killer application. It is a Virtual Earth
with 3D capabilities, to be rightly called as 3d maps. Currently
virtual earth...
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