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Bloke finds self on Google Earth
The Register - Dec.20/05
New Yorkers cope with transit strike
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Where in the World Is...
Wall Street Journal - Dec.19/05
RentSlicer.com Adds Google Maps Mash-up Functionality
PRWeb - Dec.19/05
Intranet Trends to Watch for in 2006
CIO Magazine - Dec.19/05
Web 2.0 mania revives dot-com investing
Seattle Times - Dec.19/05
Mapping mayhem: Around the world with Google Earth and Co.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Dec.18/05
Google Verifies that GIS Is Media
GeoWorld Magazine - Dec.18/05
Google plots local map (Google is ramping up its operations in Australia)
AustralianIT - Dec.14/05
Trendsurfing: Map mash-ups
The Times (UK) - Dec.17/05
CEO Schmidt Test Runs Google Transit [via]
Forbes.com - Dec.8/05
Blogs:
Wall Street Journal Traffic Spikes
WebDevRef.com (Adam Howitt's Blog) - Dec.21/05
Google Earth censored in China?
OgleEarth.com - Dec.17/05
In the material world (Google Maps in Heathrow Airport)
Official Google Blog - Dec.15/05
Google Maps Fan Creates His Own TV Ad
MicroPersuasion.com - Dec.14/05
Taking the Mashups to the Server-Side
OpenEverything.com - Dec.14/05
Damn Canadians - Google Mapping imagery reveals "Maple B" invasion of US
Somethingsowrong.com - Dec.14/05
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First ocean yacht race to be Google Earthed - or should this be Google Oceaned?
The high profile Rolex Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race which starts 26 December is going to be tracked via Google Earth.
From the official website at http://rolexsydneyhobart.com/
comes the following release :
22 December, 2005 10:16:00 PM AEDT
Rolex Sydney Hobart Website to interface with Google Earth
Building on the world first feed for its Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race in July this year, for the 2005 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race CYCA has given viewers the option to see the positions of the yachts on a map in the original Yacht Tracker application, or alternatively to view the race in Google Earth, with yacht positions and standings updated every ten minutes.
Google Earth is a 3D interface to the planet. It combines satellite imagery with a model that can be zoomed, spun and tilted.
The application to allow on-line spectators of the race to view the boats superimposed on photographic images was developed by the CYCA's website developer partner, Massive Interactive, in conjunction with the CYCA.
Adrian Wiggins, Producer at Massive Interactive, said "when Google launched the free Google Earth application earlier this year we saw the great potential for showing the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. We at Massive hope this brings a new dimension to the race for online spectators."
This new feature of the race website has been in development for the last 4 months in a co-operative endeavour between Massive and the CYCA, and has been released today.
Getting it working
1. Download and install Google Earth
2. Open the race feed file: cyca_rshyr_yachtrace.kml
This will install a network connection to the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race site and will show yachts from just before the race start at 1:20 PM AEST on 26 December.
The site has also got an RSS feed happening. With continous automatic GPS updates of the yacht's locations as they race to Hobart (Tasmania) , this Google Mashup will be giving almost real time mapping of all the yacht's positions.
As there's not much land out there in the Tasman Sea and Bass Strait I guess in most zoomed in views we'll see mostly blue water. But what the heck -- this is going to be the one of the first big multi-day sports events with contestants spread out over a 600 mile course that's going to be trackable on Google Earth.
What's next?
In 2006 will we see ..
Tour de France bike race
Paris - Dakar Rally .... ??
lets hope so
Google Earth goes wet and wild..? -- I wonder if we can do some whale watching as the yachts cruise down the Aussie coast.
News of this new mash-up was also posted on
http://terracarta.blogspot.com/2005/12/rolex-sydney-hobart-website-to.html
http://allthingstasmanian.blogspot.com/2005/12/rolex-sydney-hobart-yacht-race-2005.html
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