ShowMeWhere: Google maps for everyone!

August 14, 2006

Easily Create and Share Google Maps. Show Me Where is a point-and-click interface to creating customized Google Maps. Want to place a marker on a map? Just click there. No more geocoding is necessary in order to add points to your maps. Instead, just navigate there using the Google Maps interface you are accustomed to.

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Flickr about to add Geotagging functionality?

August 14, 2006

This user stumbled across this on Flickr this morning…”That panel prompted me to set my default geotagging permissions for new photos (that is, who can see the geotagging information). After selecting “Everyone”, I was presented a map to which I could drag and drop photos, thus tagging them with latitude and longitude information.”

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How Google Earth Is Changing Science

August 14, 2006

Biologists, epidemiologists and disaster control experts are discovering Google Earth as a powerful tool in their work. The success of the digital globe has reawakened interest in computer mapping models.

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