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Earthquake motivates New Zealanders to model their town

Pubblicato il 19 novembre 2010 da Deanna

Last week, local volunteers in Christchurch and Dunedin New Zealand invested a day of their time learning how to create 3D models using Google SketchUp. The workshops focused on learning how to geo-model, a process that involves creating 3D models of b… Continua a leggere→

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Earthquake motivates New Zealanders to model their town

Pubblicato il 19 novembre 2010 da Deanna

Last week, local volunteers in Christchurch and Dunedin New Zealand invested a day of their time learning how to create 3D models using Google SketchUp. The workshops focused on learning how to geo-model, a process that involves creating 3D models of b… Continua a leggere→

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Imagery of the Hungarian sludge spill

Pubblicato il 10 ottobre 2010 da Kate

Hot off the satellite, we’ve received brand new Ikonos imagery of the recent sludge spill in Hungary. See the below screen shots for before/after images; you can also view the the imagery in Google Earth using this KML overlay. Special thanks to GeoE… Continua a leggere→

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Google Map Maker and UNITAR Collaboration Shines at Shanghai World Expo

Pubblicato il 30 settembre 2010 da Deanna

This past weekend at the 2010 World Expo, UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Google gave a joint presentation and informational session about their recent work together in global humanitarian mapping.Illustrating his remarks with infor… Continua a leggere→

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Imagery of Four Mile Canyon fire in Boulder, CO

Pubblicato il 16 settembre 2010 da Kate

This Labor day brought Colorado its most destructive wildfire to date, as measured in structures lost. 169 homes were destroyed and 6,181 acres of mountain terrain were scorched as the Four Mile Canyon fire blazed its way through our hillside.Communit… Continua a leggere→

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New imagery of the San Bruno fire

Pubblicato il 14 settembre 2010 da Kate

One of the most common requests we get from users–literally thousands of times each month–is that we update or improve the imagery of a certain location in Google Earth and Maps. In order to provide the freshest, highest quality data possible, we par… Continua a leggere→

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Responding to the fires in San Bruno

Pubblicato il 10 settembre 2010 da Kate

Update at 6:27pm: We now have updated satellite imagery (from GeoEye) of the area. You can download it here and view it in Google Earth.Like many friends in the Bay Area and across the country, I’ve been stunned by the images of raging fires in San … Continua a leggere→

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Remembering Hurricane Katrina

Pubblicato il 27 agosto 2010 da Deanna Yick

Before coming to Google, I worked at a non-profit organization that responded to Hurricane Katrina by sending mobile health clinics to the Gulf Coast, where there was critical shortage of medical and mental health care providers. I traveled through th… Continua a leggere→

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