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Google Maps has added a saucy new terrain overlay to its already impressive view options. In addition to geographic terrain, this view ... displays buildings in metropolitan areas à la Google Earth. You may also notice that the Hybrid view is now missing from the top row of buttons, but Hybrid view (which displays satellite imagery with street information overlaid) is now the default for Satellite view (though you can toggle the street information).
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One of the main features of Google Maps is, well, the maps. The streets are marked clearly and you can zoom in much further than with any other EZ Driving Directions web site. You have your choice of 3 views. The regular map view, a satellite photo view (of the entire earth!) or a hybrid of the two. The addition of a satellite view and hybrid view makes the driving directions much easier to understand and remember.
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Google added 54 new countries to Google Maps ranging from Afghanistan to Yemen and has plans to add even more countries in the coming months. Along with the Google Maps addition, DigitalGlobe, provider of Google's satellite images, is launching a new satellite on Tuesday. For fans of Google Earth, the WorldView-1's launch will be broadcasted live on Boeing.com. [Google LatLong Yahoo News via The Raw Feed]
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With the richness of Google Earth when compared with Google Maps it is doubtful that the Earth platform will be replaced. It certainly will evolve - in fact it would not be a surprise to see Google Earth become one of the primary ways of interacting with the Internet. A rich geographic interface is one of the more intuitive ways to keep track of people and things. Buckminster Fuller once described a creation called the Dymaxion Sphere which he envisioned to be a complete, realtime, representation of all of the Earth’s resources - physical and human. He believed that such a system would help to ease geopolitical tension by providing tools to aid governments in allocation of resource and talent. He wanted to build it on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, across from the UN. There must not have been enough money or political will to do it ’cause there are condos there now.
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In September 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Google Maps quickly updated its satellite imagery of New Orleans to allow users to view the extent of the flooding in various parts of that city. (Oddly, in March 2007, imagery showing hurricane damage was replaced with images from before the storm; this replacement was not made on Google Earth, which still uses post-Katrina imagery.[11]
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Google Earth and Google Maps label most geographical names of bays along the southeastern coast of the Korean Peninsula with Japanese names. This provoked some angry comments among South Korean users. Some examples are:
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