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This really makes my blood boil. After a year of negotiations, academic geographers have conceded defeat in their attempt to find a way to ...

I'm rather slow in this one, but it's such a good example of how everyone gains from public collaboration - including Google, whose ...

This is the best introduction to virtual worlds so far: comprehensive, link-rich, and well written. Do read it if you can - it's time ...

I was going to write about Cool Earth before, but the site went down. This is both good and bad news. Bad, because it suggests a lack of ...

One of the most important innovations of the Web 2.0 era has been the mashup. As I've noted before, mashups really need underlying mesh...

...and a geek to boot, that I love these kind of things : We've taken a selection of maps featured in the London: A Life in Maps exhibit...

...now that Google Earth is there. Even though I've been writing about the coming convergence of online games, virtual worlds, and 3D sy...

How's this for a confluence : Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth interne...

Interesting use of heat maps for data representation. This shows how Google Earth and similar could become a really useful mesh for showin...

It's coming : These drawings and architectural plans would actually be an amazing resource for a virtual reconstruction of historic Stoc...

Apparently , Google Earth now has a layer that includes user-generated buildings: What you get is the best of 3D Warehouse 's textured b...

Well, almost .

Here's an interesting point from Google's Chris Dibona: Widely Available, Constantly Renewing, High Resolution Images of the Earth ...

Google has acquired the mapping company Endoxon : Endoxon is a developer of internet mapping solutions, mobile services, data processing, c...

At first sight, there's something appropriate about Paul Allen paying for the Allen Brain Atlas : an interactive, genome-wide image dat...

I came across this story about Whirlpool offering 3D models of its white goods for use in Google's Sketchup program. That's intere...

For a company that is so big and important, Google is remarkably opaque to the outside world (blogs? - we don't need no stinkin' blo...

And talking of Google Earth mashups, here's a fascinating list of speculations about what might be coming or, at least, possible.

As I've mentioned before , mashups are all about the underlying mesh. And what better mesh for knowledge than Google Earth? And what b...

I've noted before how mashups depend upon the existence of some kind of mesh ; typically this is geographical (which is why so many mash...