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October 11, 2007
New Community Maps Search Results in Google Earth
This has been a busy week in terms of releases from Google's geo team - the team which produces Google Maps and Google Earth. The first big release was that six new cities have StreetView photos in Google Maps (Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Tucson). Back in February they first released the ability to search for things and see at the bottom results from KML files and later also for GeoRSS files, and Google My Maps found in their searches of the web.
Now Google has substantially updated the ability to search and get meaningful results in Google Maps and Google Earth. I like the new search results much better. Depending on your search, you may first get results called "Community Maps" (before, any "user" results were at the bottom after local business results). You can do interesting searches like "Anchorages near Martinique" or "Lions near Tanzania" and immediately get user placemarks which are relevant and location-aware. Your results will include results from My Maps, KML files, GeoRSS, and reportedly even Flickr photos. The GeoWeb is really growing!
Google has just added a new YouTube layer to Google Earth to allow you to view geo-tagged YouTube videos. But, in my tests, it appears they haven't yet linked in the geo-tagged YouTube videos into the new search results.
Posted by FrankTaylor at October 11, 2007 09:15 AM
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Posted by: Lane Borden at October 11, 2007 02:00 PM
One of the local TV stations here in Phoenix made a big stink about the streetview capabilites of Google Maps/GE, they were asking people if it was invasion of privacy with it showing in how close it gets to houses and such.
Posted by: John Sapyta at October 11, 2007 05:02 PM
Does anybody have any information about when GE will support interactive flash media on macs and linux?
Thanks Kirsten
Posted by: kirsten e. holmes at January 15, 2008 02:09 PM
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Hi,
I was wondering, can you explain on this site, or direct me to somewhere that explains how the "street views" photos are captured? I have seen in the Philadelphia update, that it's obviously some strange camera on a car, but if you could determine the kind of camera, film, how often the photos are taken etc, I would really like to know.