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Just on the bbc news this morning is the launch of google sky..

Part of google earth application you can look to the heavans around millions of stars, planets and more…

Google is unveiling within Google Earth today a new service called Sky that will allow users to view the skies as seen from Earth. Like Google Earth, Sky will let users fly around and zoom in, exposing increasingly detailed imagery of some 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/technology/22sky.html

Scouse’s hate google earth… Or does google has Scousers

 

Jenny Douglas, planning director of Liverpool Vision, explained: “The current Google Earth images show roofing work still under way at Lime Street train station. This work took place between 2000 and 2001, which means the Google Earth images are at least five years old.

“The city centre has changed dramatically since then. It is important that the millions of people using Google Earth have access to the latest images showing the city’s transformation.”

To add insult to injury, London’s new Wembley Stadium is already available for the Google Earth Community’s viewing pleasure, of which a Google Earth spokeswoman said: “We want to give the best service we can, and it would be wrong to delay updating the London images just because we can’t do that yet for other cities.”

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This is very cool ..

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has been added to google earth.. http://www.davidrumsey.com/

This morning was incredibly exciting for me: when I opened up Google Earth, there were 16 of my historic map treasures floating serenely on the Google Earth globe. After months of hard work, the Google Earth team uploaded all the maps this weekend to the Featured Content layer of Google Earth. I was able to explore and fly around the old maps and use the transparency slider to compare the old world and the new; as I did this, I thought to myself that this is the perfect marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with the innovative contemporary software tools of Google 

More info here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/old-world-meets-new-on-google-earth.html

Love it

Every day I get on the tube at a station called highburry and islington in north london..

I’ve always looked at the ads in tube stations and noticed the other day that BA had a new ad to a location..

The Ad used google earth..

Anyways thought i’d look up what ba is saying about google if any thing and yep on the ba homepage google earth is on full display..

Not only that but ba have a layer for google earth of all the destinations ba fly to with extra info..

Read more here : http://www.britishairways.com/travel/goearth/public/en_gb

 So google updated the “google earth” application so you can find out more info on the area of the earth your looking at..

 Google has labeled is as “Google Introduces Featured Content for Google Earth”
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/earth_featured_content.html

So far this update includes the likes of:

• United Nations Environmental Program
• Discovery Networks World Tour
• National Park Service
• Jane Goodall Institute
• And more ++

By some accounts, nearly half of the information on the web actually relates to a place on earth. We’d like to help you find the best of that information and place it in the visually compelling context of our beautiful planet.

More info @ 

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/best-stories-on-earth.html