April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
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281 - DIVE INTO GOOGLE MAPS, GOOGLE EARTH, AND SKETCHUP 3D
programmable widget for your own blog or home page—this is the Google Maps API in action, which
has spawned a great many “maps mashups” online.
Google Maps is also available for mobile phones. This includes directions, and, for some cities in the United
States, the display of real-time trafc data to help you avoid trafc jams. To download Google Maps for your
phone or PDA, visit http://google.com/gmm from your phone’s web browser. If your phone is supported, you’ll
be able to install it over the air.
Google Earth (http://earth.google.com), pictured in Figure 11-2, is the desktop sibling of Google
Maps. After launching it, you’ll see that its rotating 3D globe is a bit more uid than the at 2D view
of Google Maps. Google Earth in its basic version is free, but the paid version lets you generate
videos with effects such as seamlessly zooming in to a location—the kind of effect you’d see in
TV news coverage.
At this time, Google Earth has the most complete support for Keyhole Markup Language
information les—including support for animations. Many organizations have data overlays that
you can superimpose on the globe by checking the respective boxes of the Layers pane. A Wikipedia
layer adds location-relevant information from the online encyclopedia; the Weather layers allow
you to display clouds and for ...
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