Google Earth Meets Google Maps

Google Earth is now accessible through a browser via the Google Maps page.  The plug-in for Google Earth has been available for quite some time now, so this is only a natural progression.  On the Maps page there is now an “Earth” view in addition to Map and Satellite.  Terrain has been relegated to the [...]

Posted by Tom on April 28th, 2010 | No Comments Posted in Geocaching and Maps

More Disc Golf Resources

I realized that in yesterday’s post I didn’t get any maps or locations to the two disc golf courses I’d played.  The easiest thing would be to see if the Upstate Disc Golf Club website had links to maps on their course list, but there were not even any written directions. I thought I had [...]

Posted by Tom on February 9th, 2009 | No Comments Posted in Entertainment, Geocaching and Maps

Greenville in Street View!

Much of the Upstate, including Greenville, is now available in Google Street View. Last night I discovered that Columbia and Charlotte had been added, and this morning Greenville was also on the list. The blue areas in the map below show the current coverage: In Google Earth, the coverage is a bit deceptive. There are [...]

Posted by Tom on June 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment Posted in Geocaching and Maps

Embeddable Google Earth

The functionality of Google Earth is showing up in more and more places outside of the actual Google Earth software. Much of what you could do in GE is now available in Google Maps. Maps has had the ability to read KML/KMZ files for awhile now, and for the most part the imagery is the [...]

Posted by Tom on May 29th, 2008 | No Comments Posted in Geocaching and Maps

Seero – Geospatially Aware Video

In my discussions about geotagging, one of the questions that always arises is the issue what location should be tagged. If you’re tagging photographs, should you tag the location where you took the shot, or should you tag the location of the subject. For example, if you were standing on an overlook on the Blue [...]

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Posted by Tom on May 12th, 2008 | No Comments Posted in Geocaching and Maps
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