I saw this on another board -http://demo.geogarage.com/noaa/. I thought I would share it. It looks like a useful tool at home for people who don?t have software like chart navigator or don't want to pull out the paper charts.
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Saw that a little while back when I did an upgrade to Earth Google that allows you to interface to Garmin MAPSOURCE. You can now overlay your stored waypoints/routes/tracks on Earth Google to see where they actualy relate to the satellite pictures.
GOOGLE is doing a lot of neat things with that stuff. They also have out a beta version of Google maps that can be run from a Blackberry. It will indicate where you are as you travel by triangulating the signals from the known cell towers in the area. While it is no where as accurate as a GPS, it is cool to just turn it on and know within a few hundred meters where you are!
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Verizon must be p*ssing a fit over that since it's FREE!!!!!!
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GOOGLE MAPS for SmartPhone/Blackberry
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GOOGLE is doing a lot of neat things with that stuff. They also have out a beta version of Google maps that can be run from a Blackberry. It will indicate where you are as you travel by triangulating the signals from the known cell towers in the area. While it is no where as accurate as a GPS, it is cool to just turn it on and know within a few hundred meters where you are!
Verizon must be p*ssing a fit over that since it's FREE!!!!!!
GOOGLE MAPS for SmartPhone/Blackberry
This post edited by Mad Mahi 05:28 PM 03/21/2008
MadMahi wrote:
They also have out a beta version of Google maps that can be run from a Blackberry. It will indicate where you are as you travel by triangulating the signals from the known cell towers in the area. While it is no where as accurate as a GPS, it is cool to just turn it on and know within a few hundred meters where you are!
I have the blackberry 8820 on AT&T network. The 8820 has GPS and when using the beta of google maps while outside it says it is accurate within 3 meters which seems correct because I have used it walking around the city and knew exactly when to turn a corner. It even showed me what corner I was standing on. Also make sure you have the unlimited data plan before you start using google maps because if not it can get expensive.
They also have out a beta version of Google maps that can be run from a Blackberry. It will indicate where you are as you travel by triangulating the signals from the known cell towers in the area. While it is no where as accurate as a GPS, it is cool to just turn it on and know within a few hundred meters where you are!
I have the blackberry 8820 on AT&T network. The 8820 has GPS and when using the beta of google maps while outside it says it is accurate within 3 meters which seems correct because I have used it walking around the city and knew exactly when to turn a corner. It even showed me what corner I was standing on. Also make sure you have the unlimited data plan before you start using google maps because if not it can get expensive.
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I've been looking for a web site like this for a long time.
this one is going on the desk top
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this one is going on the desk top
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mcc194 wrote:
MadMahi wrote:
They also have out a beta version of Google maps that can be run from a Blackberry. It will indicate where you are as you travel by triangulating the signals from the known cell towers in the area. While it is no where as accurate as a GPS, it is cool to just turn it on and know within a few hundred meters where you are!
I have the blackberry 8820 on AT&T network. The 8820 has GPS and when using the beta of google maps while outside it says it is accurate within 3 meters which seems correct because I have used it walking around the city and knew exactly when to turn a corner. It even showed me what corner I was standing on. Also make sure you have the unlimited data plan before you start using google maps because if not it can get expensive.
I bet your right! But my Blackberry 8700C is not equipped with GPS and I don't have an external Bluetooth GPS device. SO, it is working straight off the source of the AT & T GMM land based signal tower locations. Therefore I don't have the accuracy that you get!
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MadMahi wrote:
They also have out a beta version of Google maps that can be run from a Blackberry. It will indicate where you are as you travel by triangulating the signals from the known cell towers in the area. While it is no where as accurate as a GPS, it is cool to just turn it on and know within a few hundred meters where you are!
I have the blackberry 8820 on AT&T network. The 8820 has GPS and when using the beta of google maps while outside it says it is accurate within 3 meters which seems correct because I have used it walking around the city and knew exactly when to turn a corner. It even showed me what corner I was standing on. Also make sure you have the unlimited data plan before you start using google maps because if not it can get expensive.
I bet your right! But my Blackberry 8700C is not equipped with GPS and I don't have an external Bluetooth GPS device. SO, it is working straight off the source of the AT & T GMM land based signal tower locations. Therefore I don't have the accuracy that you get!
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Mad Mahi wrote:
GOOGLE is doing a lot of neat things with that stuff.
the brilliance of google is that they know they can't possibly build every cool application and integration that their customers might want. So instead of trying they release software developer tools so that an independent developer could build applications on top of their foundations. This NOAA/Gmaps integration looks like an example of that.
I have been meaning to do something similar to this for a long time but it looks like I no longer have to...thanks geogarage!
Joe.
GOOGLE is doing a lot of neat things with that stuff.
the brilliance of google is that they know they can't possibly build every cool application and integration that their customers might want. So instead of trying they release software developer tools so that an independent developer could build applications on top of their foundations. This NOAA/Gmaps integration looks like an example of that.
I have been meaning to do something similar to this for a long time but it looks like I no longer have to...thanks geogarage!
Joe.
Google's sat shots are a mosaic so some areas on their map are more current than others. If you look closely you could sometimes find adjoining sections where the seasons are not the same.
Most seem to be taken during the winter so that the leaves are down and they get bet visibility of streets and buildings.
Most seem to be taken during the winter so that the leaves are down and they get bet visibility of streets and buildings.
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