In collaboration with Earth Day this year, Google has just released Google Earth 4.3. With this version, Google has completely rethought how we might interact with the 3D world. In redesigning the navigation to make it much easier to fly from the heavens down to the streets of your town, we can now get […]
BMW is joining up with everyone’s favorite well known mapping monopoly, Google Maps, to bring a new addition to the BMW Assist Safety Plan. It’s called “MyInfo,” and it’s a service which will allow BMW Assist subscribers to send business locations, street addresses and their associated phone numbers to Google Maps within their car.
So for […]
Recently in my conquest for a respectable golf course at a low price, I found a very useful website. Using Google Earth, gogolfing.org is a real view directory of golf courses in the US.
In addition to the golf course contact information, you can see at a satellite map level by zoom in what the […]
Software Review: Google SketchUp 6 (freeware for Mac)
by Christine Bush
For EarthSatelliteMaps.com
Ratings:
Concept ****
Design ***
Functionality ***
Value ****
Potential ****
Google SketchUp 6 is the latest version of the 3D modeling application available for download at http://sketchup.google.com. I downloaded the freeware version for Mac and found that sketching in 3D with this fairly straightforward app […]
Software Review: Obsphere
by Christine Bush
For EarthSatelliteMaps.com
Ratings:
Concept ****
Design **
Functionality **
Value **
Potential ****
This week Obsphere has released its web-based collaborative mapping application to the public. Built upon the Google Earth API, Obsphere invites cartographers to upload and share your own layers from several popular file formats: .kml, GeoTiff, shape files or geocoordinates […]
