With the Easter break at the door, here's the recent geonews in batch mode. From the Google front:
- The GEB offers an entry providing more information on Google Earth Builder announced yesterday but to be available in Q3 and APB sums up how the media views Google Earth Builder
- Google updated the photo clusters interface in Google Earth
- You can see the real-time edits done by contributors to Google Map Maker
- And there's new imagery available in Google Maps/Earth
- APB informed of WorldMap (alpha), an open source experimental platform designed for viewing and interpreting maps collaboratively
- A U.S. national biomass dataset is now available
- The FOSS4G conference preparation is doing well, with almost 300 abstracts submitted. I can also confirm now that Slashgeo is a media partner of the FOSS4G conference
- Microsoft launched the free Photosynth iOS app to capture and share panoramas
- Seattle's SoundTransit now offer transit directions in Bing Maps
- The GEB offers two excellent summaries: Where 2.0 -- Day One and Where 2.0 -- Day Two
- Also from Where 2.0, SS shares a summary of Jack Dangermond's talk on the cloud enabling intelligent web maps
- MapQuest added a few new features detailed in this entry named Cycle Route Planner, Aerial and Languages
- VerySpatial mentions the 'Where on Earth' landmark-association game
- Slashdot discussed a story named Scientist Creates 3D Scanner App For iPhone
- and another one named Michigan Police Could Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops