Posted by Joe Hughes, Software EngineerI'm happy to say that we've just added public transit directions for Perth, Australia, Białystok, Poland, and New Jersey Transit to Google Maps. Australia and Poland now join eight other countries where Google offers trip planning and detailed transit schedules in select cities.Transperth's Oren Vandersteen announced the Perth launch over at the Google Australia blog, and it was gratifying to hear how simple he found the process:"To my surprise, I was able to produce a valid Transit Feed for testing that...
Friday, 28 March 2008
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Posted by Bradley Bossard, Software EngineerJust over a month ago, we brought you a dozen new cities in Street View, and now I'm excited to say we're topping that. We've added imagery for 13 new metropolitan areas - and a national park! We have expanded our coverage in 6 of our existing cities. Among the new areas are:Albuquerque, NMAnchorage, AKAustin, TXCleveland, OH Fairbanks, AK Little Rock, ARMadison, WINashville, TNRockford, ILRichmond, VASpokane, WASt. Petersburg, FLTampa, FL Yosemite National Park, CA Now you can visit landmarks like the...
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Posted by Andy Connolly, Visiting Faculty, University of WashingtonAs Stefan Geens noted on Ogle Earth, the sky can provide real fireworks. In this case, one of the most powerful explosions ever witnessed happened to be timed to provide a wonderful salute to the passing of Arthur C Clarke earlier this month. The gamma ray burst, GRB 080319B, is situated in the middle of the Bootes constellation and is the most luminous burst recorded in the 40 years that satellites have been detecting gamma ray bursts. In fact, it was so intense that the optical...
Monday, 24 March 2008
Posted by Tanya Keen, Google Earth OutreachAccording to Google Earth Outreach partners the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), areas the size of six football fields are cut down every two minutes in Borneo's rainforest due to illegal logging. To counteract this, the intrepid folks at WWF have a plant-a-tree campaign where you can donate a small amount for them to plant an actual sapling in the Sebangau National Park in Borneo, Indonesia. Follow the adorable animation at mybabytree.org, select how many trees you want to plant, and in return you'll get a...
Friday, 21 March 2008
Posted by Jeff Martin, Product Marketing ManagerWell, on a new Penguin Publishing site, you read it like a book. The text of select stories is literally displayed on maps. The site promises "Six authors. Six stories. Six weeks." The first is a short story by Charles Cumming entitled "21 Steps," inspired by the John Buchan novel The 39 Steps. And you can read chapters, snippets, and dialogue on a map of London. The interactive map guides you through the protagonist's travels, revealing the next chapter of the story as you--and she--reach the destination....
Posted by Brittany Bohnet, Google Elections TeamYou may have noticed that the Google Maps team is pretty interested in politics. On the flip side, we've discovered a politician who is enthusiastic about maps. Senator Ben Nelson has been creating My Maps to communicate and connect with his Nebraska constituents. He has made maps to share photos, videos, and insight from a trip to Iraq; to showcase attractions in Nebraska; and to highlight the volunteer work that students statewide are doing over spring break. Read more about his innovative use of...
Thursday, 20 March 2008
Posted by Cris Castello, GIS Data EngineerWith spring approaching, weather watchers will surely be looking forward to thunderstorm season and storm chasing, aided by the weather layers that we added to Google Earth a few months back. You may remember that it was only available in the US at the time, but I'm excited to let you know that we've now gone international, as promised! We've again partnered with weather.com to add near real-time radar coverage...
Posted by Adam Hughes, Google Earth Senior Strategist and College Hoops FanWith all due respect to Santa, March Madness is actually the most wonderful time of the year. Or at least it is to me, and all the college hoops fans out there. To celebrate this most joyous week of basketball nirvana, I've decided to visit the home arenas of the field of 65 in Google Earth and make a KML that maps their locations.Why, you ask? Well, I had a bunch of questions about the teams and where they were from, and realized that the best way to learn all about them...
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Posted by Steve Miller, Google Earth OutreachAs a part of our Google Earth Outreach efforts, we speak with a number of organizations about the important role that maps can play in non-profit communication strategies and internal planning. But mapping tools aren't the only way to put Google technology to work for you — over the past year a number of our teams have made their products more relevant and useful for non-profits. You can now find out about all of these offerings in one place on the new Google for Non-Profits site, complete with examples,...
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Posted by Ramesh Balakrishnan, Software EngineerWe realize that you know your neighborhood best. So to provide the most accurate maps possible, Google Maps is open to user edits. People have moved markers of their homes and businesses all around the U.S. and Australia, making Maps work even better.And so we thought: Why stop there? Moving placemarks is just scratching the surface. After all, when a new place opens in your neighborhood or an old favorite changes its location, wouldn't be nice to have that change reflected on Maps immediately?Now...
Friday, 14 March 2008
Posted by Carmen Erni, GIS SpecialistAre you already planning your summer vacation? The new Google Earth updates can help you map out your plans. We've added roads in 58 countries in Africa, 32 in Asia, and 4 in the Caribbean -- now both Maps and Earth provide the same roads coverage.We've also launched business listings layers for Brazil and a few cities in Russia to help you find the right restaurant or bank, for example, in case you crave a special...
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Posted by Michael Weiss-Malik, Software Engineer We like to think big. Vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big (to paraphrase one of my favorite authors). And thanks to the flexibility of Google Maps technology and the world wide web, we’ve been able to work at a universal scale (literally). We first brought you Google Mars and Google Moon. And then last year's release of Sky in Google Earth delivered night sky imagery to the masses via a downloadable application. But we didn’t want web-based users to be left out of that cosmic exploration experience.And...
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Posted by Tom Sly, New Business Development Manager, Google TransitI recently attended a conference for technical staff in the public transportation industry. I told them about the great progress Google Transit has been able to make in the past year:integrating transit information directly into Google Maps by making stations and stops visible and clickable promoting transit as an alternative each time we show driving directions in an area where we have transit data expanding coverage from nine agencies in the U.S. to more than 30 agencies spanning...
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Posted by Bruce Polderman, Product ManagerI'm pleased to announce that we've just launched the Google Cities in 3D Program, which invites cities, towns, and other local governments to share their 3D data with the public by adding a model of their city to Google Earth. With this new program we've made it simple for local governments to share their data with us and be included in the 3D Buildings layer of Google Earth.A 3D model of a city is extremely useful to potential visitors, developers, investors, preservationists, property owners, businesses,...
Posted by Brittany Bohnet, Google Elections TeamAs many poll-watchers know, this year's race for U.S. President is one of the closest in elections history. Today's primary races have the ability to change the course for both the Democratic and the Republican nominees.To make it easier to track all the action, we've decided to mash up all of the voting information that's out there to create one mapping platform for elections results -- all the way...
Monday, 3 March 2008
Posted by Lei Zhang, Software EngineerI live in Santa Monica, so I've spent a lot of time driving around parking lots going in circles looking for an available space. If you live in a metropolitan area, you know how hard finding a parking spot can be. Don't you wish you knew which lots had available spaces ahead of time?Google has just teamed up with Santa Monica's Information Systems Department to provide real-time data from the city's parking lots....
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