Virtual Earth Mobile is a powerful Windows Mobile-based application that allows you to access and interact with the maps and information provided by the Windows Live Virtual Earth Web Service.
The latest version of Virtual Earth Mobile, contains new features including a support for dragging maps with the stylus and a support for text-based directions. This version also includes bug fixes.
Check it out … it is very cool!
Virtual Earth Mobile is a powerful Windows Mobile-based application that allows you to access and interact with the maps and information provided by the Windows Live Virtual Earth Web Service.
The latest version of Virtual Earth Mobile, contains new features including a support for dragging maps with the stylus and a support for text-based directions. This version also includes bug fixes.
Check it out … it is very cool!
This is a cool newclip I found about googles new quest into the scape of lord of the rings.
With Google Middle Earth you can zoom in so close on Middle Earth locations like Isengard that you can almost see Saruman in the window!
Following in the Elven footsteps of Google Earth, "the globe that fits inside your PC", comes Google Middle Earth, the new lord of the satellite imagery-based mapping products.
Google Middle Earth is a free, full-featured download that lets you explore the topographical majesty of the lands of Gondor, Rohan, and Mordor. Google Middle Earth's impressive geographic mapping software is definitely the one product to rule them all.
With Google Middle Earth, you can measure the real distances from Hobbiton to Rohan, or from Osgiliath to Rivendell. And you don't need to be a Dunedain Ranger to track your way home from the Watch-tower of Amon Sul.
Mark your favorite areas, like the Black Gate, Isengard, or the Dark Tower. Zoom in on Minas Tirith or Helm's Deep. See more of Isuldur's land than you could from the top of the Tower of Ecthelion.
This product dwarves any other standard web-based map service.
Planning a fellowship quest? Map the best route using advanced trip directions. Why travel the extensive Misty Mountains, when you could take that shortcut through the mines of Moria?
Google Middle Earth contains terabytes of aerial and satellite imagery which will let you spend hours mapping out interesting locations like Lothlorien and Edoras.
Want to see how really big Fangorn Forest is? Ever wondered where Dwimorberg was located? Curious to know how long the Brandywine River is? Google Middle Earth combines high-resolution satellite photos of actual Middle Earth locations, allowing you to measure and judge actual distances! And it doesn't take a wizard to search and find locations like The Shire or Minas Morgul.
With regularly updated satellite imaging allowing the user to view real changes to the world of man, Google Middle Earth definitely deserves to wear the Crown of King Elessar. Now that's what we're Tolkien about!
Google has just realeased a new "Geographic Web Layer" for Google Earth, turning an already fun application into one that's even richer in photos and info, thanks to Wikipedia, Panoramio, and the Google Earth Community. Made public Saturday, here's what the official Google blog has to say about this:
"We've taken the rich data of Wikipedia, Panoramio, and the Google Earth Community and made a browsable layer in Google Earth. Now you can fly anywhere in the world and see what people have written about it, photographed, or posted. I went hopping around from the southern tip of South America to the mosques in the Middle East to the Maldives Islands, immersed in a wealth of information, and I really felt like I was visiting each place through eyes of people who had been there. It was really engaging to compare, say, the Grand Canyon through the photos in Panoramio to the view from Google Earth, where I could follow the Colorado River through each.
Zooming around Google Earth is always mesmerizing, but it just got a little more informative. The product added user descriptions and photos1, pushing a “Geographic Web” layer on top of the landscape. Many such mashups are currently available, but community-powered markups previously required downloading a separate file.
Little icons now indicate selected entries from Wikipedia, geo-tagged photos from Panoramio, and posts by the Google Earth Community. All of this is very sparingly done, but it’s great to see Google incorporating community content into the default version of one of its product.
We didn’t recall hearing of Panoramio2 before, so we looked it up. Turns out it’s a small Spanish photo-sharing startup with just two developers and 50,000 total photos (as of the end of October). Google Earth had previously hyped the Panoramio feed on its download page3. The 3D animated photo mashup is similar to what we’ve seen of Microsoft’s Photosynth4 experiment. Where Photosynth is more elaborate, having pictures rooted to a map and all this surrounding context is the cheapest form of tourism we know of.