Lang lang ists her, hier folgt wieder eine neue Folge der Tipps der Woche. Diesmal u.a. mit Prognosen zu den Auswirkungen der Finanzkrise auf den Tourismus, Reportagen zu Afrika-Reisen, Freiwilligen-Programmen im Ausland und der seit 1. November gültigen Vorgabe, dass Flugpreise in der Werbung immer alle Pflichtbestandteile enthalten müssen (d.h. nur inklusive Tax etc. gelistet werden dürfen). Einen Großteil der News beansprucht jedoch wieder einmal Google für sich, hat man in den letzten Wochen doch Google Streetview in Frankreich, Italien und Spanien gestartet. Und seit heute gibt es zusätzlich Google Streetview für Washington D.C., Baltimore und Seatle.
Ok, los geht es mit der Übersicht für diese Ausgabe:
As reported at Google Maps Mania, Google has released new Street View imagery in France. Google had already released Street View imagery in July for the Tour de France route. Now they have more complete coverage for the following cities: Paris, Toulouse, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, and Lille. Most...
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Right on the heels of Tuesdays rollout in Spain, you can now enjoy the beautiful Italian cities of Rome, Florence and Milan (where I previously lived!) with Street View. This new imagery for Italy also captures some of the stunning views along the shores of Lake Como. View Larger Map View Larger...
In the final days of this captivating presidential election season, are you interested in knowing how US has voted in the past? Together with the Digital Scholarship Lab at University of Richmond, the Google Earth team has mapped historical election results in Google Earth and Google Maps. These...
A few days ago, Microsoft Research Labs released a major beta update to their free WorldWide Telescope (Windows only). Among its many improvements, the "Autumnal Equinox" release includes a new way of exploring the universe ? instead of just zooming in on photographs of the night sky as seen from...
The Colorado-based Love Hope Strength foundation hosted an event recently called "Peru Rocks", where 63 travelers - including musicians from The Fixx, Fastball, The Alarm and more - along with cancer survivors, and their supporters from around the world joined together to raise funds and awarenes...
Flugpassagiere können auf eine Aufhebung der Beschränkungen für Flüssigkeiten im Handgepäck hoffen. Die EU-Kommission will die Mengenbegrenzungen abschaffen.
Wikimapia BETAEveryones favourite Google Maps mash-up Wikimapia has undergone a big update. WikiMapia is a Google Maps based wiki system which allows anyone to add information to any location on Earth. The map now has over 8.5 million places marked - and it just got even better with Wikimapia BET...
Google Maps map of Baghdad is sparse (to say the least), Microsoft Virtual Earth isnt much better, And Yahoos is beginning to look familiar: And yet Google Mapmaker isnt enabled for Iraq. What to do? OpenStreetMap to the rescue! OpenStreetMap, going where big corporate mapping datase...
Sobald eine Stadt oder eine Landschaft zum Bond-Drehort auserkoren wird, reiben sich Touristiker die Hände. Viele Sets haben sich zu lukrativen Pilgerstätten für Fans und Urlauber entwickelt.
Posted by Mano Marks, Geo APIs team OK, its not exactly a manual, actually a handbook, The KML Handbook by Josie Wernecke. Josie is the Google tech writer who wrote the KML 2.1 and 2.2 documentation, and also helped write the KML 2.2 OGC Specification. So she knows what shes talking about! The ...
Google has released Street View imagery for Washington, DC (also Seattle and Baltimore - see below) just in time for the 2008 presidential election! Heres a shot of the National Monument: View Larger Map Unfortunately no close-ups of the White House or the Capitol Building. But, heres a view...
Whew! Its been a busy last couple weeks for the Street view team. After our recent launches in France, Spain and Italy, Street view is now available in 6 countries. But to help celebrate Election Day, we thought wed head back to the US and launch imagery of the nations capital, Washington, D.C....
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