Advertising in Virtual Earth
Posted by on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 in - 1 comment
Microsoft's Virtual Earth is more then just a way to view the world in a 3D space with textured buildings. Unlike Google Earth, Virtual Earth has a number of floating clickable billboard ads.
American Star Shipwreck Location
Posted by on Thursday, February 16, 2006 in
I seen an image today in a Photoshop forum that had me instantly thinking fake. However if you search "American Star" in Google, you'll see some amazing photos of this ship wreck off the coast of Fuerteventura Island. Fuerteventura is one of the seven Canary islands off the North West coast of …
Hurricane Katrina Damage in Google Earth
Posted by on Friday, September 2, 2005 in
Google Earth has been adding updates to the Mississippi Coast to reflect the damage. There are currently 12 image overlays you can download that will allow you to turn on and off and see the before and after of Hurricane Katrina. • Download Images from Google. • Until more images are available …
MS Flight Simulator
Posted by on Monday, July 4, 2005 in - 3 comments
Google Earth (Keyhole 3) hit it big this month in popularity and amazed millions. Yes the new features are impressive but the ability to travel the globe in a virtual world is not new. Keyhole has been around for a few years as well as World Wind, Google Maps (the online version of Google Earth …
Browsing Earth with Google
Posted by on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 in
Here comes another post about Google Earth and the powers it has. In my previous review, I showed a screenshot of the overlay layers that could be turned on and off but didn't talk about them much. Here are some additional screenshots showing how much information Google Earth actually provides …
Open Source Mapping with NASA World Wind
Posted by on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 in - 3 comments
After I made the post about the cool new features coming to the renamed Keyhole, a friend sent me a photo of Orlando from an open source program called NASA World Wind. • I posted about World Wind back in November and although I though it was good for a few things, it just didn't work as good as …
Google + Keyhole = Google Earth
Posted by on Monday, May 30, 2005 in
I don't see anything in the email about being quiet about this so here goes with some cool new mapping features. Friday I received an email from Google inviting me to download the beta of the soon to be replacement for Keyhole. Google Earth. • Compared to Keyhole, you will notice changes right …
Google Maps vs Keyhole
Posted by on Thursday, April 14, 2005 in
Now that Google Maps is capable of displaying detailed satellite images of the globe, I questioned the value of Keyhole and the price some of us paid to use it. Especially since Google Maps has a much better coverage area.
Traveling Virtual Earth
Posted by on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 in
NASA has an Open Source project called World Wind and allows you to zoom in to high resolution details of cities and landmarks around the world. It's free but due to growing popularity, getting access to the server is a hit or miss. • The alternative to this is Keyhole and when Google purchased …