Topic: Google Earth

For Nonprofits, Google Marks the Spot

Google rolled out a new program Tuesday to help nonprofits use its Google Earth tool to tell their stories through interactive maps. Along with some technical expertise, Google is offering up free versions of its $400 software to ...READ»

How Microsoft Is Priming the Mood of Bing Searches

There is a growing dialogue within the design community around how to drive sustainable behavior change in areas like health and energy. With it has come an increased awareness that often seemingly trivial elements of a ...READ»

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Google Earth Adds Climate Change Tours Narrated By Al Gore

In addition to showing the worldwide impact of climate change scenarios, the Google Earth layers will eventually allow users to zoom in on specific neighborhoods. Hint: New York City, watch out. READ»

Google Earth Will Track Cars and People In Real Time

This is one of the awesomestest and scariestest technology demonstrations I've seen in a long while: Georgia Institute of Technology's students are using CCTV video to map actual vehicles and people into Google Earth. Why is this scary?

Live video makes Google Earth cities bustle

Virtual globes such as Google Earth or Microsoft Visual Earth provide great bird's-eye views of urban landscapes. But those streets are empty, transforming the world's cities into ghost towns.Now a system that can draw on real-time video from traffic and surveillance cameras, or weather sensors, is set to change that. It populates virtual towns with cars, people and realistic skies.READ»

Top Apps

Filtering 25,000-plus apps into one list? Impossible. Instead, hot apps to suit your style and phone.READ»

How You Can Land on the Moon Today, July 20 2009

It's forty years since Neil Armstrong sundered humankind's history in two: The era before the Moon landings, and after. Here are a couple ways for you to get involved in Lunar fever online today. Walter Cronkite's Famous TV ...READ»

Tracking the Tree

November 17th Gordy Grove, an independent owner operator for National Van Lines, left Seattle hauling the 65-foot Pacific Silver Fir tree that will be displayed at our nation's capitol this holiday season. Thanks to Global Locating ...READ»

An Ingenious Hybrid Map: Why Didn't Garmin Think of This?

Bold new concepts in mapping don't come along often, but London-based graphic designers Jack Schulze and Matt Webb may have invented one, with the "Here and There" map, which blends both a 3-D, first-person view and a bird's-eye view.READ»

Just Around The Corner: The First 3D Map

Fast Interview: Earthmine co-founder John Ristevski talks about competing with Google and the first consumer applications for this space-age technology.READ»

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Africa Technology and Investment Digest Week 2

Subscribe to Appfrica by Email   Nicco Mele Launches NewsJunk.com Nicco’s career began as a member of the technical staff for various political campaigns, in particular the presidential campaigns of Howard Dean, ...READ»

Microsoft to Tackle Google Street View With Crowd-Sourced App [UPDATED]

Google's Street View app, alongside Google Earth, has ever-so-slightly changed the world--buying a house may never be the same again, for one thing, nor will smartphone-based navigation. And that's probably why another tech giant ...READ»

"Green Nobel" Winners Get the Google Earth Mash-Up Treatment

This year's seven winners of the $150,000 Goldman Environmental Prize (AKA the Green Nobel), given to grassroots leaders that take on government and corporate interests to improve their communities, are a motley crew. They ...READ»

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom; Photoshoplifting; Dead Planet?

Very Short List delivers one excellent item to your inbox, daily: Books, films, music, web-things, and dispatches on science and technology. Click through to browse super-mega-resolution paintings, polish images on the web, and learn what we now know about Mars.READ»

Three Rs to Become Three Rs Plus Google in U.K. Schools

Taking an apple to class for teacher could soon take on a whole new meaning. There's a plan underway to overhaul the curriculum in U.K. primary schools--nothing special there, since there's always some attempt underway to improve ...READ»

PopTech! Kicks Off

Given the events of 2005 – killer hurricanes, radical insurgencies, melting ice caps, threats of pandemics – the theme of this year’s PopTech!, “Grand Challenges,” has a “ripped from the headlines” urgency. Stepping ...READ»

PopTech! Kicks Off

Given the events of 2005 –- killer hurricanes, radical insurgencies, melting ice caps, threats of pandemics –- the theme of this year’s PopTech!, “Grand Challenges,” has a “ripped from the headlines” urgency. Stepping ...READ»

NRDC's Online Renewable Energy Map Examines Cleantech Potential in the U.S.

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) launched a Google Earth mash-up map earlier this month to show alternative energy installers where they might run into trouble with legal restrictions or endangered wildlife advocates. ...READ»

An Exclusive Peek at Google's Breakthrough Ideas to Restore Its Waning Glory

With everything from Bing to Twitter trying to steal Google's thunder, people can't stop talking about the search giant's innovation slump. Here's an exclusive peek at Google's arsenal of breakthrough ideas to restore the glory.READ»

World Food Day: Mercycorps Unveils Action Center to End World Hunger

Right now, more people are hungry than the populations of the US, Canada and the EU combined. In an attempt to combat world hunger, MercyCorps has opened the Action Center to End World Hunger in downtown Manhattan.READ»

In the Mood

A new way to map human cities.READ»

The Best States in the U.S. for Future Solar Energy Projects

Wondering where the next big solar developments in the U.S. will be located? The Bureau of Land Management released six maps this week that show the best solar prospects in the states most suited for solar power: Utah, ...READ»

The 10 Most Creative People in the Web Business

1. Reed Hastings, Chief Executive Officer, Netflix Reed Hastings could have stuck with his first breakthrough idea--Netflix recently mailed its 2-billionth DVD. Instead, he's swiftly embraced streaming online and direct to TV via ...READ»

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Wal-Mart and Home Depot Join the Green Group

Recent articles about Home Depot and Wal-Mart have detailed the efforts these chains are making to bring green products to their stores as well as what they themselves are doing to decrease their impact on the environment. When the ...READ»

Google Invades Gaming; Outer Space

Adding to its already-formidable AdSense product-line this week, Google [GOOG] announced AdSense for online Flash games. Comscore says that up to 25% of Web surfers worldwide play these games, so Google might be tapping a sizable ...READ»