Google Streetview Car in Bonn
google streetview car in bonn, originally uploaded by .dan.

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Fire Eagle is a service, imho especially for mobile devices, that helps users share their location online with their friends and with other sites and services to get the right information just in time.... perhaps another iPhone application :)

Mickey from Google Earth Blog explains it as follow:

Yahoo has just launched their entry into the growing world of "track your location" sites with the release of Fire Eagle...
You can feed your location to Fire Eagle from your GPS unit, cell phone, laptop, etc, then their applications can use it for whatever task you give them permission for. [read on]

You can find some of favorite apps by exploring the Application Gallery!
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net

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...which included the huge collection for Disney World in 3D, included many other 3D Buildings for cities around the world.
There are hundreds of cities with at least a few 3D buildings in Google Earth. But, there are now dozens of cities with nearly complete 3D renderings of at least the major skyscrapers. [via gearthblog.com/]

Video Demo: Frank Taylor's Disney World 3D for Google Earth

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Disney World in 3D in Google Earth has Arrived!
Explore Walt Disney World® Resort in 3D

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Fans will be able to keep track of the events of the tournament using the new Google European Football Championship 2008 Fan Map. Learn about the stadiums - the tournament kicks off at Basle's St Jakob Park and the final will take place at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna on 29th June...

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Senghor On The Rocks is an online novel written in german by Christoph Benda illustrated with animated Google Maps.

senghorontherocks.net, design flachware, development flo ledermann, cc

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KML (XML file format .kml for managing the display of three-dimensional geospatial data) is now an international standard, according to Google's announcement yesterday.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international standards body, has announced the completion of KML's standardization process. KML has become an OGC Standard, and the OGC will take responsibility for maintaining and extending it. This transfer of ownership is a strong reflection of Google's commitment to open standards.

Keyhole Markup Language in short KML was already in use for map overlays by Microsoft Live and Yahoo! Maps.


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According to James McGill

Street View in the API gives developers the power and control they need to embed this functionality in their own websites in whatever way they wish. The API allows you to embed one or multiple panoramas in any location on a site and move, remove, hide and unhide them as necessary.

» View Inline Demo

one feature is the ability to control the embedded viewer using Javascript functions on the GStreetviewPanorama object. The panTo function changes the current point of view by performing a smooth animation between the current and target view.

Google Streetview documentation, reference, demos

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