Big Street View Update for Canada

Big Street View Update for Canada


Canada has had a large update of Street View - Victoria, British Columbia is new
along with

Edmonton, Saskatoon, St. John’s, Winnipeg, Victoria.


Small update for United Kingdom

Kew Gardens
Warick Castle
EDEN Project
Stonehenge
ITV [UK TV Channel] have 'Coronation Street'

Sources
http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/
http://maps.google.ca/
http://maps.google.co.uk/

official post
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/12/more-street-view-updates-see-sea-see.html

updates throughout the day at http://twitter.com/mapperz

TopOSM Updates

TopOSM Updates

The 'prettiest' form of Open Street Map has a nice clean update:


TopOSM has new coverage - Colorado

Permalink - http://toposm.com/co/?zoom=14&lat=40.0303&lon=-105.30387&layers=B0TT
(Links to the map above)

TopOSM Changes:

• Released TopOSM Colorado
  

• Colour-by-elevation in base layer

• Contour lines and hillshading generated from the USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED)
  

• Hydrography (lakes, rivers & wetlands) from USGS National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)
  

• The hillshading, contour lines and map features are on separate layers. Use the layer switcher (top right "+") to toggle.

Techie talk:
"I created a Python script to generate map legend HTML snippets - complete with images - from mapnik description files and a short description file that specify what features to include. You can see the result at http://toposm.com/ma clicking on the "Show/Hide Legend" at the bottom right. Legends are specific to the current zoom level, so they will refresh when zooming in and out."

"I also added elevation labels for contour lines. The only issue is that the data from MassGIS (where the contours come from) is in meters (3 meter interval) and my map is entirely in ft, so the values look a bit funky sometimes. Not much I can do about that, though..."
Lars Ahlzen

Lots of minor other improvements too. There's a full change log at:
http://toposm.com/changelog.html

As always, the map is at http://toposm.com/

Full Credit to Lars Ahlzen in this excellent version of Open Street Map
he notes:
"It took longer than I thought, but I've finally released TopOSM (my OSM-based topographic map project) for the state of Colorado."


Source:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Ahlzen/diary

Previous Posts:
http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2009/04/toposm-pretty-openstreet-map.html

Talk to the Map! [Google Maps on Android]

Talk to the Map! [Google Maps on Android]


(this video jumps to the 'speak moment' in the video once play is 'clicked'

• Speak to the Map and and search.

• Google Transit - Pubilc Transport live date (where available)
  

• Google Maps for Android includes some big improvements to Google Latitude. (location will continue to update as long as your phone is on.)

• New experimental feature called Updates that lets you communicate with friends and post messages. (Your friends will also need to download this new version of Google Maps for Android)

• Street View in Google Maps on Android is no longer its own map mode, Now integrated into the map where street view is available.
  

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry2gaJgmgiU

Source:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/06/search-by-voice-and-transit-directions.html

Virtual Earth Update (40TB Worth)

Virtual Earth Update (40TB Worth)

Another huge amount of tiles updated - this list is long
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/03/25/new-imagery-march-2008.aspx


UK
Birds Eye Views

London

Wigan

Cheddar

Cheddar Gorge in BirdsEye Mode

Cheddar Gorge in 3D Mode

Harlow

Sawbridgeworth


Orthophoto's (Aerial)

Norwich

Ipswich

Cambridge

Hereford

Ludlow

Diddlebury Area

Coventry (South)

Bury St. Edmonds

Updating Maps, on the Fly with TomTom Map Share™

Updating Maps, on the Fly with TomTom Map Share™
A Web 2.0 Solution?

"Map Share™ is a proprietary map improvement technology unique to TomTom, which enables users to easily and instantly improve maps. TomTom users can respond in real time to changes in the road network and correct the maps on their TomTom devices accordingly. Thanks to the smart user interface, it is easy to make improvements, such as blocked or unblocked streets, reversed one way traffic or new street names, which will instantly take effect."
(The TomTom satellite navigation community has over 10 million users.)


Featured:TomTom GO 720
Image Source: TomTom

But how many will actually use the updating software?

The MapShare software will be released for older TomTom GPS units

Swiss Alps Super High Res in Google Earth/Google Maps

Swiss Alps in Glossy Super High Res in Google Earth/Google Maps



Google announce another imagery and terrain update:

Highlights are:

• Entire country of Switzerland at 50cm and many Swiss cities at 25cm ( courtesy of Endoxon)

• Entire country of Switzerland terrain at 10m, the Swiss Alps are now super high-res!

• Entire country of Denmark at 50cm

• Australia day flyover

• Cities of France: Lyon; Le Mans; Lourdes; Reims; Nancy; Limoges; Lille; Arles

• Potsdam and Magdeburg, Germany

• Barcelona, Belem, CapeTown, Galapagos (Isabella Island), Manaus, Mt Saint Helens, Recife, Rio, Venice)

• Whistler British Columbia

• Full state coverage for Wyoming & Utah

• Significant amounts of new Digital Globe data

Google now shows you the dates of the images



select 'Digital Globe Coverage' in the Layers to view this information (useful for reference)



Source: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/815618
Via: The Map Room
More Links at Google Maps Mania

More info over at Ogle Earth

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