So Google Maps finally updated the satellite imagery for my area.  It went from 2005 photos to 2008.  It's still almost two years old but the differences are pretty big.  One of the biggest differences is the completed Market Street bridge and surrounding areas. 

 

Market Street Bridge area (2005):

 

Market Street Bridge area (2008):

 

South Williamsport side (2005):

 

South Williamsport side (2008):

I was setting up a new route on Bikely.com and realized that the images for my neighborhood are from late spring of this year.  Trees are fully green, all the boats are in the water and the dikes are up for the bridgework they're doing down the street from me.  So the images can only be a few months old at the most.

 

Edit: To clarify I live on the far southeast side of Cleveland suburbia.

Just found out that google voice is open to everyone now. Just got my #!

 

Now I have to figure out what I do with it :-)

Is This Flying Drone Google’s Next Privacy Controversy?

more: http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/08/09/is-this-flying-drone-googles-next-privacy-controversy/

 

Google announced an image update yesterday

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/09/imagery-update-week-of-september-20th.html

 

Included was Cincy...I was browsing the imagery and to me it looks very recent like it was from this summer (2010) (late last year? -- too green). Anyone know?

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cincinnati&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Cincinnati,+Hamilton,+Ohio&gl=us&ei=_9ScTNaSMYWClAe9_smrCg&ved=0CCoQ8gEwAA&ll=39.09717,-84.51043&spn=0.006028,0.008068&t=k&z=17

^ Those shots are definitely from this summer. I found my car parked in the lot at work, and it's the car I bought in February of this year :)

Also it has to be summer because UC's campus looks totally empty

Huh, you can finally see my house.  The previous picture still had the giant tree that used to be in the front yard (gone by the time we bought it).  Now you can actually see the house.  Unfortunately the street view is from before we had the house painted this summer.  Man, was it ugly.

 

I hope they don't update Lansing, MI...i like that i can see my car at my old job up there.  i think those pictures were from 2006.

I think it is June or July of this year.  Tiara on QCS is not complete but almost finished & Friars Club is completely demolished.

WOW ...

 

Got to play with the Google TV today and I gotta say, it's pretty damn amazing. It kind of reminds me of the PS3 with the UI. It's a damn shame, Sony's PS3 could've done this, but there's no denying Google's innovation.

 

I don't think there's any doubt that this is a sign of the end for TV as we know it.

 

With Google/Apple TV, DLNA, HSPA+, LTE, 3D, Tablets, Infotainment, etc. things are going to get real interesting within the next 5 years!

I hope so, but I'm pretty sure we'll have to suffer another 5yrs of media conglomerates and access providers growing pains before we get to that 5yrs of amazing progress (see the music industry).  They got the right to remotely disable ports on your TV/receiver earlier this year, who knows what's next. Prepare to get hosed.

Im not sure if anyone noticed but googlemaps updated the streetview to the higher quality images(now everywhere not just intersections). Well this is true for Cleveland at least.

I think it is June or July of this year. Tiara on QCS is not complete but almost finished & Friars Club is completely demolished.

 

At my work, we think that we have narrrowed it down to the images being taken on 7/6/10, during mid to late afternoon.

^ Having the human race eliminated by an omniscient, self-aware computer program would suck enough even if it was something fierce sounding like "Skynet".  But being wiped out by something as silly sounding as "Google" would add insult to injury.

Google Code is my new fasciation right now.  They have all of the jQuery API hosted.  So convenient.

Okay guys.

 

Go to googlemaps. Go to get directions. Set starting address as Japan and ending address as China. Then look at step #43

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=desert&sll=37.646078,-115.751009&sspn=0.00615,0.013797&ie=UTF8&t=h&rq=1&ev=zi&split=1&radius=0.45&hq=desert&hnear=&ll=37.646078,-115.751009&spn=0.00615,0.013797&z=16

 

 

Okay guys.

 

Go to googlemaps. Go to get directions. Set starting address as Japan and ending address as China. Then look at step #43

 

Haha yeah a friend showed me that the other day in class.  Definitely hilarious.

In other Google-related news, I got the Droid Incredible.  Love that phone!

Holdout:

 

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=NW+46th+St,+Seattle,+Washington&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=33.716271,72.158203&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=NW+46th+St,+Seattle,+Washington+98107,+United+States&ll=47.66219,-122.375282&spn=0,0.001101&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=47.662189,-122.375429&panoid=-1wtg-6jXGzhMGnDQDVo7Q&cbp=12,13.36,,0,-15.83

Holdout:

 

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=NW+46th+St,+Seattle,+Washington&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=33.716271,72.158203&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=NW+46th+St,+Seattle,+Washington+98107,+United+States&ll=47.66219,-122.375282&spn=0,0.001101&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=47.662189,-122.375429&panoid=-1wtg-6jXGzhMGnDQDVo7Q&cbp=12,13.36,,0,-15.83

Awesome!

I believe that house was the inspiration for the movie "Up"

Holdout:

 

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=NW+46th+St,+Seattle,+Washington&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=33.716271,72.158203&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=NW+46th+St,+Seattle,+Washington+98107,+United+States&ll=47.66219,-122.375282&spn=0,0.001101&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=47.662189,-122.375429&panoid=-1wtg-6jXGzhMGnDQDVo7Q&cbp=12,13.36,,0,-15.83

 

Hahahahah that was awesome!

 

So this is what the people from Tremont are like :lol:

 

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Tremont+ohio&sll=47.594588,-122.511292&sspn=0.225045,0.616608&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Tremont,+Cleveland,+Cuyahoga,+Ohio,+United+States&ll=41.468011,-81.690307&spn=0.00197,0.006861&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=41.468011,-81.689187&panoid=8JTueUWgJe_XoGJiz32EqA&cbp=12,328.38,,1,15.32

Okay guys.

 

Go to googlemaps. Go to get directions. Set starting address as Japan and ending address as China. Then look at step #43

 

Same thing happens when you set starting address as USA and ending address as Japan.  Look at step #27.

 

Notice step #27 AND step #42. Looks like they include a drive in Hawaii.

^well you gotta stop and buy more gas.

Surely they have a gas station in Princeville, on the north shore of Kauai...?  Why dock your kayak on the north shore of Oahu and take the scenic route south to Honolulu...?

 

Wait...kayaks don't take gas.  Maybe by the time you reach Hawaii, they figure your oars will be wearing down and the only kayak repair shop is in Honolulu...?

 

 

So with all the buildings "texturized" what do you think is next?  My prediction is as connection speed improves, google will dish out fully modeled 3d buildings.  The technology exists.  My company uses laser scanning for some of our projects.  What we do is set up these machines on tripods and they basically laser scan all surfaces generating point clouds.  We then usually down sample or (dumb down) these 3d images..tremendously to remove things like dust and insects, hairline cracks, etc.  They are then extrapolated to form surfaces and volumes, and brought into any modeling software.  They help us accurately model complex spaces.  Just imagine what this could do for google, and how scary it kind of is.  Every detail could be modeled

So what's the buzz from the hi-tec peeps on here about the Nexus S?

 

http://www.google.com/nexus/#!/index

It's gonna be an awesome phone that will sadly never be offered on any other network but T-mobile because bastardizing Android by the carriers/Samsung is the cool thing to do and they can't do that with a Nexus phone.

Link to an article on an e-retailer that was using negative traffic to drive his ranking up on Google search algorithm. Guy sounds like a borderline psycho, threatening customers, leaving nasty e-mails and voicemails. Following link on his arrest a week after the article ran.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html?ref=business

 

Article on arrest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/business/07borker.html?ref=technology

I read that yesterday. I was amazed at this guy's ability to game not only Google's system, but Ebay's, Mastercard's, manufacturers, etc.

 

He portray's himself as an unorthodox businessman but I think you're right: you have to have a little crazy in you to act like this. It doesn't even sound like he was making that much money after all that effort.

And he was doing this while he had a wife and a 2 YO? Wouldn't you want to at least keep it semi-legit to keep yourself out of jail?

 

It seemed that he a low opinion of the people that would buy from him, because they were being greedy because he had a low price and wouldn't take the time to research who they were buying from. Almost as if they deserved to deal with him and to be ripped off.

Check out the view googlemaps give this city in china

 

 

http://tinyurl.com/2d6ejqf

 

Check out the view googlemaps give this city in china

 

 

http://tinyurl.com/2d6ejqf

 

 

more like pittsburgh.

Googlemaps has just begun creeping into buildings, their are a few art museums that they let you explore, they have the link on their homepage. You can enter and exit the buildings as well as move through the building

Neighborhood name updates for Columbus include North Central's sub-neighborhoods like Devon Triangle and Shepard, other neighborhoods like Southern Orchards (just east of Parsons) while made-up area names like "South Central Hilltop" somehow made their way in. Tri-South's sub-neighborhoods are even showing up, but Cambria Addition is erroneously labeled just "Cambria", which I'm sure will raise the ire of all 50 residents. Hey, they even got Staumbaugh-Elwood: looks like Google must have found my (now defunct) website.

Has anyone seen Google's news archive feature?  I don't know what other newspapers they have from Ohio, but they have original scans--that are searchable--of the Youngstown Vindicator going back to 1890.

 

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=pqgf-8x9CmQC&dat=19260321&b_mode=2

 

I couldn't find Cleveland, Akron, Canton, or Massillon when I searched a month ago.  But, maybe they will be expanding this collection over time, like they continued to expand street view?

Ive never seen a googlemaps aerial taken at night until this

 

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.516211,-73.533554&spn=0.058939,0.154152&t=h&z=13

 

 

Edit: ^Holy crap thats a new feature!

Has anyone seen Google's news archive feature?  I don't know what other newspapers they have from Ohio, but they have original scans--that are searchable--of the Youngstown Vindicator going back to 1890.

 

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=pqgf-8x9CmQC&dat=19260321&b_mode=2

 

I couldn't find Cleveland, Akron, Canton, or Massillon when I searched a month ago.  But, maybe they will be expanding this collection over time, like they continued to expand street view?

 

That's awesome...

 

Edit:..after looking at it, it's very creepy too. Wow we all are going to be part of the Google borg collective.

^^That isn't an aerial taken at night. Rather, it was underexposed and taken during the winter.

A plane

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&sll=41.785089,-87.579939&sspn=0.003832,0.013733&ie=UTF8&ll=41.785437,-87.57921&spn=0.001916,0.006866&t=h&z=18

Has anyone messed around with the new Chrome 11 and Google Cloud Printing?  I can now print from my android phone to my school printers, our new wireless printer at home, and the one that is connected to my computer if it's turned on without having to buy some expensive app, and without having to be on the computer to do it. All thanks to Google Cloud Printing.

I wonder when the 45 degree angle feature will come to the United States.

 

Its really cool looking around Rome with it.

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Rome&aq=&sll=40.714353,-74.005973&sspn=0.001948,0.004823&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rome,+Lazio,+Italy&ll=41.89961,12.47166&spn=0.002705,0.004823&t=k&z=18

^ Bing already does that.

Current locations with the 45 degree imagery:

Lots in the USA

 

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=h&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=202754851668298126921.00048ad05c320f746f5c2

I'm surprised no one has discussed this yet. Anyone get invited to try out the initial release?

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/technology/29google.html

 

I don't use Facebook, but I have to say this kind of intrigues me, if for nothing more than the multiple camera video conferencing capability.

+1

 

Is anyone from here on Google+ yet?

Anyone still using Google Buzz?  :-P

+1

 

Is anyone from here on Google+ yet?

 

Yes. Love it.