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Here's the recent Google-related geonews.

From official sources:

• Google added new StreetView images taken from their Trike (bicycle) from places inaccessible by motorized means
• There's an entry named KML and Google Earth API: Recent updates and resources
• There's a new Protected Layer Map to keep Google Fusion Tables tables private when used with the Google Maps API Premier
• There's an entry on ski slopes in Google Earth
• You can now tweet your Hotpot ratings in Google Maps for Android

From other sources:

• Ogle Earth offers an informative entry on Google Earth and the Middle East
• Ogle Earth also offers an entry on the Dutch-German border dispute and Israel Street View
• The GEB offers news of running Google Earth on the Motorola Xoom
• The GEB has another entry on Shaderlight, which generates beautiful photorealistic 3D models from Google's SketchUp. There's a MacOS version now.

 Plenty of recent Google-related geonews to share in batch mode.

From the official sources:

• With Google Latitude, you can now check-in to places: "You can still use Latitude to automatically update and share your location, but check-ins let you add context to the location—like captions to a photo." There's check-in places specific notifications and automatic check-in and check-out.
• Here's an entry on geotagging photos with Panoramio and Google Latitude
• Google Hotpot is now on Google.com and available around the world in multiple languages and accessed from Google Maps and mobile devices
• Now, Street View can take you inside museums around the world
• And if the Super Bowl is within your interests, take a trip to the Super Bowl with Google Earth

From other sources:

• An entry claiming Google Earth for Tablets Should Have Desktop Features
• If you like the Alps, this entry is for you, Cycling the Alps adds games, tours and much more
• Here's a great guide to Turkey in Google Earth
• The GEB also discusses MineCache, a tool for gold mining information in Google Earth

Here's recent Google-related geonews.

From the official sources:

• There's a new widget to select content to display in Google Maps, a significant interface change
• There's now an "Upload a photo" link in Google Places
• Continuing improving Hotpot, Google Maps searches can be enhanced by your Hotpot friends
• Google software, including Google Earth, is now available in Iran
• The Developer blog discusses 5 ad campaigns using Google Maps

From other sources:

• The GEB offers an entry on simulating flooding in Google Earth
• Here's how to turn SketchUp models more realistic with Shaderlight, a quick look at the screenshots show the dramatic improvement
• There was new imagery added to Google Earth last Sunday
• For people in California, here's how much solar power your house could generate calculated from Google Earth
• The GEB also discusses Water Point Mapper and finding safe water sources in remote areas with Google Earth 

I've been overly busy lately, the consequence is you're getting your geonews in batch mode a little later than usual. Here they are!

On the Google front:

• Google provided an early look at HotPot, a local recommendation engine powered by you and your friends
• Google Boost, a local business advertising program, is now available to about 10 U.S. cities
• There's new panoramic photos in Google Earth

On the ESRI front:

• ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 1 Released
• V1 mentions GIS Tutorial books for ArcGIS 10
• SS informs us that Esri Adds an iOS App to Help Link Your Health to Your Environment

On the Microsoft front:

• There's a white paper on the new spatial features in the upcoming MS SQL Server

On the open data/open source front:

• O'Reilly is enthusiastic about Boston real-time transit data now available
• Here's an entry named Government institutions and OpenStreetMap in practice
• Also interesting is USGS Trialling OSM Software Stack for Editing
• A new feature for the Java Topology Suite: Single-Sided Buffers in JTS
• News of the integration of a 3D globe directly in QGIS, and while we're at it, a summary of the QGIS hackfest
• New releases: Geopublisher and AtlasStyler 1.6
• Shapely 1.2.7 has also been released
• Here's a discussion on ExifTool to modify location (GPS) metadata of your pictures

In the miscellaneous category:

• I do have to have to mention that we're in the Geography Awareness Week 2010
• While we already discussed worldfile basics, here's to refresh our minds: the WorldFile explained
• Vietnam ojecting to China's depiction of disputed islands in Map World
• The FGT blog mentions the release of Dinamica EGO 1.6, software for spatial environmental modeling
• V1 discusses ‘What is driving the need for real-time geodata, and how does that impact the spatial information sector?’
• In another entry, V1 discusses the Strategic Citywide Spatial Planning of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
• In a last V1 entry, BIM – CAD – GIS Integration is discussed

In the maps category:

• A quick look to the map of landlocked and double-landlocked countries
• Here's Cartograms of the 2010 U.S. Midterm elections
• Might be useful, an Easy Magnetic Declination Value Website