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Google Geonews: Public Alerts in Google Maps Launched, Summaries of 2011, pyKML, World Bank Using Google Map Maker, and much more

Wed, 2012/01/25 - 09:44 — Satri

Here's the recent Google-related geonews, it covers a longer time span than usual.

From official sources:

Here's a summary entry of the major changes and updates to Google Maps and Google Earth in 2011
Google launched today Public Alerts in Google Maps: "If a major weather event is headed for your area, you might go online to search for the information you need: What’s happening? Where and when will it strike? How severe will it be? What resources are available to help?"
The World Bank signed a greement to use Google Map Maker for disaster preparedness, this just makes me wish even more that Google will join and merge GMM with the OpenStreetMap bandwagon
On the dev blog, they introduced pyKML, a Python library for manipulating KML
There's new 45 deg imagery for nothing less than 24 cities:
- US: Boise/Caldwell, ID; Buffalo, NY; Chattanooga, TN; Cleveland, OH; Denver, CO; Greenville, SC; Houston/Pasadena, TX; Kansas City/Gladstone, MS; Knoxville/Louisville, TN; Memphis/Bartlett, TN; Mobile, AL; Nashville, TN; Pensacola, FL; Racine, WI; Santa Monica, CA; Sarasota/Englewood, FL; Stockton, CA
- Europe: Baiona, Spain; Basel, Switzerland; Friedberg, Germany; Mannheim, Germany; Santander, Spain; Ulm, Germany
- South America: Porto Alegre, Brazil
StreetView is now available in South Korea, for the cities of Seoul and Busan and there's new campus tours in Street View too
Google is open sourcing Sky Map and will collaborate with Carnegie Mellon University
On the dev blog, here's about integrating Street View and custom panoramas into your apps
And another entry discusses heatmap.js and its Google Maps API Heatmap Overlay
There's an official Google Maps game coming to Google+ next month
Here's biodiversity tours in Google Earth
There was a major imagery update the first week of January, here's the details