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Visit DisneyLand Paris Using Google Street View

Disneyland Paris is the first amusement park available in Google Street View. "Last October, as the last few rays of sunlight remained high enough in the sky, Disneyland Paris opened its gates early to our Street View car to capture some of the magic at street-level. We drove up Main Street USA (outside of Paris!), through Adventureland, and around Fantasyland and even in Walt Disney Studios Park," explains Google.

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You can also view an impressive 3D model of Disneyland Paris in Google Earth. "More than 85,000 photos (450GB worth) were taken over a 20 day period for this project. The castle alone is comprised of over 354 textures derived from over 2,000 photos. (...) There are over 500 unique landscape elements that were created to make the park look as realistic as possible."

Clipped from: YouTube - Announcing 3D Disneyland Resort Paris - in Google Earth

Sources:

1. Visit DisneyLand Paris Using Google Street View
2. Google Maps

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Guggenheim and Google Join for Shelter Design Competition

clipped from www.nytimes.com Think Small: Design a Tiny Shelter Online On Monday the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Google will announce a global, online design competition that invites the public to use Google Earth and Google SketchUp to design virtual 3-D shelters. The contest, Design It: Shelter Competition, will accept submissions through Aug. 23. Amateur and professional designers can visit guggenheim.org for information on how to enter, choose a location on Google Earth and use SketchUp software to create an original design for a 100-square-foot living and work space. clipped from www.guggenheim.org Design It: Shelter Competition Why shelters? The competition is an extension of Learning By Doing, an exhibition in the Guggenheim Museum Sackler Center for Arts Education that features plans, photographs, and models of student-built shelters from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. For the past seven decades, students at this school have taken on the challenge of designing, building, and living in small shelters nestled in the landscapes of the school’s Arizona and Wisconsin campuses. In working on these shelters, students consider human needs for safety and comfort, as well as the relationship between architecture and place. Design It: Shelter Competition opens up the project to you. If you could build a shelter anywhere in the world, where would it be? How would you design it to respond to the surrounding environment? clipped from www.guggenheim.org Learning By Doing Design It: Shelter Competition Design, submit, and view shelters. clipped from googleblog.blogspot.com Unlike the Taliesin assignment, the shelters in this competition are virtual. To enter, use Google SketchUp to design a small structure where someone might sleep and work. Your shelter should be created for a specific site anywhere in the world and geo-located in Google Earth. It also should conform to size constraints and must not include running water, gas or electricity. When you're done with your design, upload it to the Google 3D Warehouse, then fill out the submission form on the Guggenheim website. clipped from sketchup.google.com You can use Google SketchUp to create, modify and share 3D models. Learn more about Google SketchUp » New! Build models and add them to Google Earth clipped from sketchup.google.com

Sources:

1. Arts, Briefly - Think Small - Design a Tiny Shelter Online - NYTimes.com
2. Design It: Shelter Competition
3. YouTube - Shelter Competition - Getting Started
4. On View Now
5. How to Enter
6. Official Google Blog: Design It Shelter Competition: Unleash your inner architect
7. Google SketchUp
8. Google SketchUp

Related:

1. Google Earth
2. 3D Warehouse
3. Gimme Shelter! Google and Guggenheim Get Sketchy | The New York Observer

Google's GeoEye-1 Satellite

GeoEye Inc successfully launched its new GeoEye-1 satellite, which will provide Google Earth users and others the highest-resolution commercial color satellite imagery on the market.

clipped from wattsupwiththat.com Google Earth gets a new space eye clipped from www.satimagingcorp.com About the GeoEye-1 Satellite The GeoEye-1 Satellite sensor was developed by GeoEye and features the most sophisticated technology ever used in a commercial remote sensing system. GeoEye-1 is capable of acquiring image data at 0.41 meter panchromatic (B&W) and 1.65 meter multispectral resolution. It also features a revisit time of less than three days, as well as the ability to locate an object within just three meters of its physical location. This newly developed sensor is optimized for large projects, as it can collect over 350,000 square kilometers of pan-sharpened multispectral satellite imagery every day. clipped from wattsupwiththat.com clipped from www.satimagingcorp.com GeoEye-1 Satellite Images clipped from www.satimagingcorp.com » About the GeoEye-1 Satellite Sensor » Download the High Resolution Image » More Images from GeoEye-1 clipped from uk.youtube.com Launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite aboard a Delta II Rocket clipped from uk.youtube.com Breaking: Satellite for Google Earth Blasts off in Californi An unedited animation provided by GeoEye of the satellite and the means by which it scans images of earth.

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 GeoEye Releases First Image Collected by Its New GeoEye-1 Earth-Imaging Satellite - Oct 08, 2008
 Google signs exclusive satellite deal - vnunet.com
 Google's Super Satellite Captures First Image | Wired Science from Wired.com

Google Ocean

clipped from scienceblogs.com A motion in Google ocean According to Cnet's story Google diving into 3D mapping..., soon we'll all be able to get in a submarine and fly-through canyons to see the underwater world in high resolution the way marine scientists do. The new product will be an assimilation of improved satellite altimetry, multibeam echosounder technology, and other declassified information to allow unprecedented insight to the ocean realm. clipped from news.cnet.com This is an image of a bathymetry map that shows the depth of the sea floor. It is based on sparse ship soundings and satellite altimeter measurements of subtle bumps and dips in the ocean surface which are produced by tiny variations in the pull of gravity. (Credit: David Sandwell and Walter Smith/Scripps Institute of Oceanography) The tool, however, is not to be confused with the "Google Ocean" project by France-based Magic Instinct Software that uses Google Earth as a visualization tool for marine data. clipped from www.justmagic.com Bathymetry Open this Placemark Weather Open this Placemark

4D Ionosphere on Google Earth

NASA has just released CAPS, which is short for Communication Alert and Prediction System. This system enables that anyone can get a model of the Earth’s Ionosphere live.

clipped from science.nasa.gov 4D Ionosphere April 30, 2008: Today, NASA-funded researchers released to the general public a new "4D" live model of Earth's ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the layer of ionized gas that encircles Earth at the edge of space itself. All that's required is a connection to the Internet. clipped from science.nasa.gov How to Launch the 4D Ionosphere "One, download and install Google Earth." "Two, visit our web site and click on the link 'Total Electron Content.'" Wait for the file to load and presto—you're flying through the ionosphere. A typical screenshot looks like this:

via: CAPS: A '4D' Model of our Ionosphere - Instablogs
Related:
NASA - Explore the Ionosphere (from the safety of your own home)
NASA - How to Launch the 4D Ionosphere
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Dynamic data in Google Earth

The new version 4.3 of Google Earth provides many new features, including the day/night effect a clouds layer, dynamic data of traffic, weather, news and more.

clipped from google-latlong.blogspot.com We've done several dynamic things already: traffic, weather, news courtesy of the New York Times, and YouTube. But don't wait for us to create more dynamic data - we've always believed that the greatest content is created by our users. Through the magic of Network Links in KML, any dataset can be set to auto-update at whatever interval is appropriate. The KML Gallery has several great examples, such as real-time earthquakes and current air quality. clipped from google-latlong.blogspot.com you can now animate the Earth through different times of day! Check out how much more dramatic these hills look during sunset: My favorite image is one of the Earth from space, overlaid with the cloud layer, and with the sun mode turned on: clipped from google-latlong.blogspot.com If you're running the latest version of Google Earth, you'll notice a new "Weather" folder in the layers panel: clipped from google-latlong.blogspot.com All the news that’s fit to print on a map: The New York Times in Google Earth clipped from google-latlong.blogspot.com Real time Traffic in Google Earth clipped from earth.google.com Real-time Earthquakes clipped from earth.google.com Current Air Quality