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In today’s New York Times there’s a story about the Google X secret lab that is working on 100 far-forward ideas. Within the text of the article is a discussion of robotic data collection, and the possibility that Google might deploy robots to photograph streets for Google Maps. While the article is certainly speculative about [...]
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The Southern Methodists University Geothermal Laboratory has completed a detailed map of the geothermal resources in the United states with a grant from Google.org. The detailed research and resulting map indicate that there are ample stores of green power to be generated by the Earth’s heat via currently accessible technology. The research is aimed at [...]
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Prosecutors in South Korea have been after Google for privacy infringements from Street View mapping. A police probe found that in addition to collecting 360-degree images, the camera-equipped vehicles also collected serial numbers on mobile devices, mobile messages, e-mails, passwords, and even credit card details. After getting nowhere by interrogating local Google officials, the prosecutors [...]
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SAP has announced a new alliance with Google to display SAP’s analytics on Google’s map visualization tools for location-based intelligence. The alliance focuses on the visualization of geo-tagged data to unlock new dimensions of enterprise information and to deal with increased volumes and frequency of data. The focus here is on easily accessible dashboard-like views [...]
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The United Nations University is holding a workshop this weekend in Tokyo to explore ways to redevelop the region of Tohoku after the devastating earthquake and tsunami. The aim is to harness community input through the creation of social contribution networks and the use of Google’s mapping and modeling tools. Google representatives will be training [...]
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This week Google is holding their I/O developer-focused event, and there area number of interesting announcements coming from the conference that have been reported. Fusion Tables has proved quite popular with those interested in quickly mapping tabular data, and Google has added the ability to style colors and icons on mapped data based on details [...]
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The Earth Knowledge Portal launched recently as a new way to view global news and information via a Google Earth interface. The Google Earth Outreach Team contributed a large collection of their Google Earth Tours as content. News comes from BBC Earth, World Wildlife Fund, Reuters, NASA, NOAA, Christian Science Monitor, and the Global Heritage [...]
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Certainly you’re familiar with the brouhaha that Apple and Google stirred when the extents of their tracking were revealed over the last ten days. Details were shed on this issue at the Where 2.0 Conference, although many had been tipped to the tracking at the timing of the release of the iPhone 4 with a [...]
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Google just announced the launch of Google Earth Builder this morning at the Where 2.0 Conference, outlining a cloud-based ecosystem for hosting and creating geospatial data. The new tool will be available in the third quarter of this year, and will harness Google’s impressive computing power to enable enterprises to store and access terabytes of [...]
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