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Here's the recent Google related geonews in batch mode.

From official sources:

• With 100$ kit you can get your own balloon and kite imagery for display in Google Earth, this was also discussed over Slashdot
• You can now easily snap your photos to a location in Panoramio
• There's an entry on remembering the Titanic in Google Earth
• There's a map example from the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG with Google Maps API
• The dev blog also shared a Zombie Survival Map that uses Google services!
• Maybe be useful is visualizing U.S. demographics using Google Maps API for Business and a related announcement of Analytics for Google Maps API for Business
• And there was an imagery update to Google Earth & Maps this week, tons of areas impacted

From the GEB:

• The GEB informs us on ways of using Google Earth on Earth Day
• There's New Street View imagery in Israel and Ukraine
• Also on the Titanic topic, the voyage of the Titanic in Google Earth
• And you can now fly a jetpack in Google Earth
• Still from the GEB, view the recently discovered animal-shaped mounds in Peru
• The GEB finally informs us that the unofficial Google Earth Flight Simulator gets a new home and a slew of enhancements

 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 the recent geonews in batch mode.

On the Google front:

• The Maps Data API is being deprecated, replaced by Fusion Tables in the Maps API v3
• In addition to the Maps API for Flash, Styled Maps launched for the Static Maps API
• There was an imagery update this week for Google Maps and Earth
• Google also previewed StreetView imagery for Germany
• There's an official Panoramio Photo Contest

On the FOSS4G front:

• The next version of QGIS will feature raster masks, explained in this entry
• GeoServer gets a new file chooser

In the miscellaneous category:

• Slashdot started a discussion today named Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps
• The GEB details Breadcrumbs, a software to visualize your GPS tracks in 3D
• The Russians are serious mapping land use land cover, with 12,000 Landsat-5 scenes acquired in 2010
• TMR shares a review of the DeLorme GPS/Communicator Combo
• DigitalGlobe is reporting is third consecutive down quarter
• Everyblock released their API

In the maps category:

• A quick look at this map with a reversed Mercator effect for Africa and Greenland makes obvious how maps projections can be misleading, especially the omnipresent Mercator projection

Here's a few Google-related geonews for this week.

• Google just announced the introduction of Place Search: "Today we’re introducing Place Search, a new kind of local search result that organizes the world’s information around places. We’ve clustered search results around specific locations so you can more easily make comparisons and decide where to go." Screenshot of what it looks like included in the entry.
• Ogle Earth claims Google Maps is doomed in China: "In short, things are still not looking up for Google. Sina's article references government sources who state that Google will definitely not get its license by the end of the year, when China's laws on internet mapping will begin being enforced in earnest. The implication is that the site will thenceforth be blocked in China." Explanations available in the entry.
• The GEB has an entry on Google's Panoramio is now adding photos from the Ocean.
• Yesterday evening Slashdot was running a discussion named FTC Ends Probe of Google StreetView Privacy Breach.
• The FGT blog mentions a "quick and dirty heatmaps" solution for Google Maps named Tixik Heatmaps.
• We mentioned custom snail mail envelopes with maps in the past, here's the 'Map Envelope' website to help you print and fold map envelopes yourself.

Recent Google-related geonews that weren't shared yet.

• The official blog offers an entry named more transparency and control over location, in short: "Today we’re moving your location setting to the left-hand panel of the results page to make it easier for you to see and control your preferences."
• The official Google LatLong blog has an entry on historical imagery: "There are history books, movies, and photographs, but they portray isolated places and events more than the connected whole. So we’ve addressed this by launching historical imagery in Google Earth in a number of new areas, including London in 1945, in coordination with archivists in these countries."
• The last official entry is on a similar topic, Main Streets using Google SketchUp for Historic Preservation

From other sources:

• The GEB informs us there are New KMLs for Panoramio photos in Google Earth
• The same blog prepares us: Comet Hartley 2 will approach Earth over the next few days; view it in Google Earth
• Yes again, New Google Earth Imagery - October 19
• Slashdot discussed a story this morning about Google Is Going Postal In Sweden, using Google Maps to deliver paper advertising

A busy week for these geonews in batch mode.

On the Google front:

• Google Latitude is now available for our desktop computers, a reminder; Latitude is Google's tool to share your location with friends and see where there are in real-time on map. And yes, you can get alerts when friends are neaby.
• If you use Google's Panoramio, integrated into Google Maps and Earth, you now have access to new sets of statistics for your photos.
• The GEB answers the question How often does Google update the imagery in Google Earth? And of course, there was another imagery update this week.
• The GEB offers an entry named 8 things to do with Historical Imagery in Google Earth

On the FOSS4G / opendata front:

• Here's an entry on running PostGIS in parallel threads
• Here's a link on a "GDAL Web driver", GDAL filesystem implemented on HTTP
• OpenStreetMap's founder Steve Coast left CloudMade
• SpotMaps images are now available in OpenStreetMap [French link]

On the Microsoft front:

• Here's an entry about new options regarding Enabling the New Style in the Bing Maps AJAX Control.
• Here's an entry on Bing Maps and the use of U.S. 311 issues, specifically for Miami and San Francisco.

On the ESRI front:

• James Fee informs us Esri Added Parcels to Their World Streets Map Service.
• There's a new software called GeoCat Bridge for ArcGIS, to publish using OGC services data from ArcGIS Desktop to the open source GeoServer and GeoNetwork.
• Here's an entry about Trimble Support For ArcGIS 10 And ArcPad 10 Now Available.

In the miscellaneous category:

• The European GNSS (GPS) system GALILEO needs more funding and more time, completion date is now projected to be 2018.
• TMR links to Gizmodo's best navigation apps for iOS and Android.
• IBM launched CityOne, their SimCity-like game to build smarter cities.
• Spatial Sustain discusses a review of online mapping tools usability and accuracy, specifically Google Maps, Bing Maps and MapQuest.
• Regarding augmented reality, APB mentions an app with which you point an airplane with your iPhone and you get info about it (flight number, destination, height and speed).

In the maps category:

• Here's an entry on The Census of Marine Life in Google Earth, "the major international oceanographic research project involving researchers in over 80 countries, who tagged more than 120,000 types of species & millions of organisms over the past decade".
• Here's a Map of all the munitions dumped in Europe after WWI and WWII.
• The Australian Atlas of Mineral Resources has been updated