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I've found myself recently wishing for a "globe" mode, akin to what's available in Google Earth, to better see some large-scale scale and distance interests that have come up for me.
I've found myself recently wishing for a "globe" mode, akin to what's available in Google Earth, to better see some large-scale scale and distance interests that have come up for me.
I'm checking out the new Google Maps beta, and if you zoom all the way out in Earth mode, it actually puts the clouds back-in -- based on real-time satellite data. Pretty cool. Now if there were just a time slider... But it's also very cool that Google Maps no longers looks like a big patchwork of images from totally different satellites and sources. It actually looks seamless now, no matter where you're zooming. Tha…
Another interressing articles on cloudless map on mapbox: * http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/a-cloudless-atlas/ * http://www.mapbox.com/blog/improving-mapbox-satellite-by-mak...
Thanks to Landsat 8 new data also no longer suffers from Landsat 7's defunct SLC
I'm checking out the new Google Maps beta, and if you zoom all the way out in Earth mode, it actually puts the clouds back-in -- based on real-time satellite data. Pretty cool. Now if there were just a time slider... But it's also very cool that Google Maps no longers looks like a big patchwork of images from totally different satellites and sources. It actually looks seamless now, no matter where you're zooming. Tha…
My hometown still looks horrible :'( https://maps.google.com/?ll=65.14846,-13.690295&spn=0.015042...
I've found myself recently wishing for a "globe" mode, akin to what's available in Google Earth, to better see some large-scale scale and distance interests that have come up for me.
You mean you want a Google Earth-like 3D view in the web-based Google Maps? If so, you're in luck: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/helloworld/desktop/preview/
In chrome when you select 'Earth' view, it gets you to install a plugin, but then it's all there.
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You mean you want a Google Earth-like 3D view in the web-based Google Maps? If so, you're in luck: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/helloworld/desktop/preview/
http://imgur.com/P7nWQh4 In chrome when you select 'Earth' view, it gets you to install a plugin, but then it's all there.
I'm checking out the new Google Maps beta, and if you zoom all the way out in Earth mode, it actually puts the clouds back-in -- based on real-time satellite data. Pretty cool. Now if there were just a time slider... But it's also very cool that Google Maps no longers looks like a big patchwork of images from totally different satellites and sources. It actually looks seamless now, no matter where you're zooming. Tha…
I've had quite a few crashes with the beta, and a number of features are now missing (Particularly, multiple stop directions). :(
Every time I fire up a private browsing session to do a multiple stop route I am a bit amazed that they released it as beta with that feature missing. Obviously we're in a minority though.