Google Earth

Google Earth has, since its inception, been redrawing the map as far as GIS is concerned. While the notion of modeling maps of earth in 3D is nothing new in GIS programs, most of these tended to be stand-alone applications with very specific uses, and also tended to be sufficiently expensive as to not be feasible for the average user. Find more information about Google Earth and other Google Apps or Google products at O'Reilly Media.

More Geo-Games: Ship Simulator on Google Earth - O'Reilly Radar

By Brady Forrest

At Google I/O 2008 the Google Earth API was released. It brought Google Earth's 3D capabilities to the web (with the help of browser extensions). Since that release they've started supporting Macs. One really nice part of the Google Earth API is the ability to create games in the 3D world. One of the sample apps was the game...

[Publish Date: May 18, 2009]

Touring With Google Earth 5 - O'Reilly Broadcast

By Kurt Cagle

Google Earth 5 hit the Internet earlier this week (visions of some cataclysmic asteroid impact come to mind with that statement), debuting everything from a historical mode that lets you see the evolution of terrain over time to a dramatically expanded oceanographic mode that lets you see a whole new world 'under da sea' to the rather stunning release of Google Mars, in which the orbiter maps from the exploratory missions of the last decade are now laid out in stunning detail (and hopelly waking up a whole new level of appreciation for the Red Planet).

[Publish Date: February 06, 2009]

Extending Google Earth: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

By Frank Taylor

Google Earth provides a visualization platform for sharing geospatial information that is both deep with data and imagery, but also rich in terms of functionality. This session will demonstrate cutting edge applications, discuss the availability of developer resources, and will even describe tools available to use the platform without coding.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Geo-Blogging with the Google Earth API - InsideRIA

By Andrew Trice

The concept Geo-tagging data is not new. With GPS and cellular-network based geolocation available nearly everywhere, geographic information is showing up everywhere that it is applicable; cell phones, web sites, rss feeds, etc... It is the backbone of the "geoweb". There are numerous programs for geo-tagging your data, and you can even geotag your pictures from your iPhone, if you so choose. With the Google Earth API, you can take this information and publish it on an interactive globe for the entire web to see.

[Publish Date: January 08, 2009]

Speaker: Mike Belshe: Load Balancing, Uptime and Scalability: A Systematic ...

Mike Belshe has been an early member of the Google Chrome team, working on a number of performance-related areas including network speed, plugins, and javascript performance. Mike has worked at several startups in silicon valley over the last 15 years, including Netscape, Remarq, Good Technology, and Lookout Software. His performance work for the web started in 1995 when he was a lead engineer on the Netscape Enterprise Server 2.0 team. Ironically, he never thought he'd ever be working on browsers back then.

[Publish Date: December 08, 2009]

Hacking with Google, Virtual Earth and Yahoo's Maps API I: Where 2.0 ...

By Andrew Turner, Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath

You can add maps to your site in minutes with Microsoft, Google's, Mapquest, or Yahoo's APIs. However, there's more to geo than just maps or the big guy's APIs. Learn how and when to use geocoding, reverse-geocoding, place names and other services that you've never hear of before.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Google Wave: the Early Days - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

After the press conference following this morning's keynotes, I was part of a small group conversation with Lars Rasmussen, head of the Google Wave team. He told the story of how they pitched Sergey Brin on the Wave project.

[Publish Date: May 28, 2009]

Google Maps - Now With Perspective! - InsideRIA

By Andrew Trice

No, this isn't my new perspective on using the Google Maps API. In fact, it's much more exciting. Google recently released a new addition to the Maps API for Flash, including 3D perspective, and a new control set that is reminiscent of the controls in Google Earth! Straight from Google: "With a perspective map, the map is projected on a viewport (the screen) using a virtual point of reference in front of the screen (the camera). These three components (the map, the viewport and the camera) form a perspective on the viewport which gives the illusion of depth perception to the map."

[Publish Date: July 30, 2009]

Hacking with Google, Virtual Earth and Yahoo's Maps API II: Where 2.0 ...

By Andrew Turner, Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath

Having leading edge features and capabilities are great, but if you can't get data into your system, or users can take their data out then it's a dead end. This workshop will cover popular formats, services, and interfaces that are emergent and upcoming in the Where2.0 space.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today? - ...

By Tim O'Reilly

Yesterday's Google I/O keynote highlighted the power of HTML 5 to match functionality long experienced in desktop applications. This morning, Google plans to announce an HTML 5-based application - still very much in the early stages of development - that represents a profound advance in the state of the art. Lars and Jens Rasmussen, the original creators of Google Maps,...

[Publish Date: May 28, 2009]

Google Earth + Google Earth API on Mac - InsideRIA

By Andrew Trice

Lots of news today, First JavaFX, now Google. Google Earth, and the Google Earth browser API are now supported on Macs.

[Publish Date: December 04, 2008]

Exploring The Google Earth API - InsideRIA

By Andrew Trice

Back in June, Google released the Google Earth API, which is a javascript-enabled browser plugin version of Google Earth. I finally got a chance to explore the Google Earth API, and here's the result.

[Publish Date: August 21, 2008]