3D Open Street Map

3D Open Street Map (Via Google Earth plugin +kmz)


With the help of Google Earth Plug-in and a KMZ from OSM Wiki is is now easy to combine


View anywhere in the World with Open Street Map coverage.

Go play. Look at http://mapperz.googlepages.com/OSM_3d_seemless_GE.html
Note:Tiles do cache via Google Servers parsing the kmz file and is heavy on the browser.

Credit to markus-bader.de for creating the kmz file.

Related Post:
http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/05/hey-maps-api-and-earth-api-developers.html

Google Maps includes Transit Data

Google Maps includes Transit Data


Formally they only way to access this for the 21 (most in the US) cities was via
http://www.google.com/transit

But it seems from today that is now available via the Google Maps main portal.

It's a good way to help get information to the user, real-time traffic can also be overlayed to see any potential delays.

The coverage hopefully expands and in due course 'city' commuters will be able to access it via mobile devices.
No European Cities to date.


try it out here:
http://www.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=
&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=university+washington
&daddr=robinswood&sll=47.598755,-122.199554&sspn
=0.10441,0.32135&dirflg=r&ie=UTF8&ll=47.651281,
-122.202301&spn=0.13414,0.32135&z=12&om=1&layer=t&start=0
(time for tinyurls google?)

Mapperz Source:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6507

Now there is an Official Post from Google LatLong Blog on this topic.