In past years, NORAD partnered with Google to help track Santa using Google Maps and Google Earth.
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Google also features a line-up of cloud applications that make it a virtual one stop shop, and greatly enhances its brand, including Gmail, Google News, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Chrome browser, Google reader, Froogle and the neat Google Earth.
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These then link to a web-based dashboard where survey data can be tracked on Google Maps and Google Earth, according to Water for People.
Other sites with devoted followings such as the photo-sharing site Flickr also won multiple awards, as well as sites such as Google Maps and Google Earth.
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Google offers a similar facility via Google Earth which is promoted in its main maps app, but involves switching into a separate program.
According to one of the NYT sources, another issue could be Google's desire to include 3D imagery from Google Earth in any standalone effort to compete with Apple's native features.
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Google snapped up Keyhole in 2004 and turned it into Google Earth, one of the great Web engineering achievements of our time.
There is no saying how many have built big mashups from the downloads, leveraging the 100 million people that have used Google Earth, the map service from Google itself.
But as lovely a treasure as it is, an old-fashioned printed world atlas is not on the same plane or even the same planet as Google Earth (and its sister, Google Maps).
Google said it will begin to add 3-D images of buildings to its Google Earth app for mobile devices.
These massive facilities house clouds like Amazon EC3, Google Earth, and Apple iTunes.
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The project collects what it says are Google Earth images of the locations of drone strikes.
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Using Google Earth, some 1, 500 oceanographers, biologists, meteorologists and enthusiasts are following the expedition.
All buildings will show up in pretty good 3D in the new Google Earth.
Jones, chief technologist of Google Earth, Maps and Local, says the company never considered buying Navteq.
It's not quite as flashy as Google Earth, but it looks a whole lot more useful.
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The accompanying video (at the end of this post) shows the Google Earth app in action.
This has already taken place in communications and even intelligence thanks to sources such as Google Earth.
In their project, users stand on the board, which is placed before a large-screen projection of Google Earth.
Not only are we closer to the information, but we are benefitting from the Google Earth flying viewpoint.
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The navigation system can display Google Earth imagery beneath the map overlay, which is sure to keep passengers entertained.
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Researchers the police, google earth, weather cam sites, mod, all got this evidence?
You can drive a big Google Earth van through the hole to be opened up by future search-technology opportunities.
Open up the doors of government satellite data and you get Google Earth.
The UrtheCast website will feel like a blend of Google Earth with the video playback and search functionality of YouTube.
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The stakes are high in computer graphics, thanks to a growing number of three-dimensional applications ranging from games to Google Earth.
As the balloon rose, the team was able to map its progress using Google Earth via the craft's on-board radio receiver.
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From the mind of the guy who brought us Google Earth, we get a walking tour app (albeit a good one)?
The two-dimensional world of the Web is rapidly going 3-D with immersive applications such as Google Earth and World of Warcraft.
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