Naw, that's google earth. which is, by intent, a mix of maps with user
contributed data. That is exactly what google was shooting for (although, I
understand that one took a lot of google higher-ups brain power to figure
out if it fell within terms of service)
And, the crowdsourcing of google maps
They have been adding countries over the last couple of years.
Australia was only in mid 2006.
South Africa was Winter 2006.
Russia, Turkey, Taiwan, Thailand, Croatia, Solvenia, Lithuania, Estonia
were mid 2007
Phillipines was fall 2007
And to answer your next question (below) about wh
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And a couple of links talking about the crowdsourcing that produced the
> Indian detail maps.
>
> http://philbridges.com/filechute/michael_jones_cc2007.mp3 (starts at about
> 75% in)
>
> http://www.dankarran.com/blog/archi
And a couple of links talking about the crowdsourcing that produced the
Indian detail maps.
http://philbridges.com/filechute/michael_jones_cc2007.mp3 (starts at about
75% in)
http://www.dankarran.com/blog/archives/2007/07/24/googles_approach_to_crowdsourcing_map_data.php
The list of "supported c
>From whom? And if you say Yahoo I'm going to laugh my ass off.
So is the information from Georgia and Israel (and Cyprus, etc.) too much
money or trouble to Google?
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That is why they have the SATELLITE images of all of t
Here is one of the projects that have already produced:
http://www.google.com/mapmaker&hl=en
And one of the engineer's blog post:
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/06/making-your-mark-on-world.html
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Michael Dinowitz <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...As for
That is why they have the SATELLITE images of all of these places. They own
the producer.
But they don't own the road overlay and gis data. They rent it.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Michael Dinowitz <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Google bought up a company (satellites and all) that produces
Most high tech companies in the world have a R&D or production location in
Israel. In Google's case, they just want to make sure no one can find them
in Israel on the map. :)
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Found this interesting...
>
> Google has offic
Google bought up a company (satellites and all) that produces the maps a few
years back. They're not at the mercy of anyone. As for the Google maps
mini-revolt, I'm going to look it up.
Personally, I love that "non-American and non-European countries" mention.
If you can't beat *ism, join it.
On
Found this interesting...
Google has offices in Tel Aviv and Haifa.
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=intl.html&jobslg=iw
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It doesn't matter if Yahoo has it. Google and Yahoo don't always use the
> sa
It doesn't matter if Yahoo has it. Google and Yahoo don't always use the
same map data services. And they don't necessarily have the same service
level agreements.
Neither produce their own map data, afaik.
Both are at the mercy, currently, of their data providers, their data
agreements, their ab
Do a comparison with other mapping sites (Yahoo) and see if its lack of
information (Google should have the best as they have the best equipment for
it)
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wow, there are only a handful of countries that appear to have NO
>
Wow, there are only a handful of countries that appear to have NO
information at all.
Israel
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Georgia
Cypress
Dominican Republic
Turks and Caicos
Bahamas
Martinique
Guyana
Suriname
French Guyana
Argentina
Falkland Islands
North Korea
South Korea
Some of these are "disputed" from
Hm, Are they next?
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Armenia and Azerbaijan have nothing, either, FWIW
>
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On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Switching to satellite view shows everything, though.
Everything except for names or any other Google provided features. You can't
hide a road from space but you can fail to identify it.
> There are apparently a lot of
Armenia and Azerbaijan have nothing, either, FWIW
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Maybe Jerry's idea was right and they took it all out by request of
the Israeli government.
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Michael wrote:
>
> As for Sergey Brin, just because one is of Jewish genealogy does not mean
> they are pro-Israel. Some of the most anti-Israel people around have Jewish
>
Yahoo has no problem with knowing the roads and cities of Georgia. Wikipedia
has no problem. Anyone know of any other mapping site that we can test? The
speculation is that Russia asked Google to remove the information and as
we've seen in the past, Google is quite happy to comply with the wishes o
Switching to satellite view shows everything, though.
There are apparently a lot of countries that do not have maps of roads.
Cyprus, Vietnam, Iceland, Pakistan and many Caribbean islands as further
examples.
Google will also obscure or remove some vital maps and images if requested
by the host c
I think the lack of maps comes more from a lack of data to map than
anything, but I could be wrong. I found Yahoo's business directory
stuff in maps to be totally useless in Marbella, and the map data
itself was totally inaccurate as far as the location of our resort.
It would be extremely troubli
Yahoo maps seem to be able to find towns, cities, and roads in Georgia. So
Yahoo is better than Google. WOW
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Michael Dinowitz <
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> Georgia is asking for a truce and Russia is ignoring it. Someone mentioned
> that Georgia is missing from ya
Georgia is asking for a truce and Russia is ignoring it. Someone mentioned
that Georgia is missing from yahoo maps and if you look you'll see that all
roads into the country disappear as soon as they get to the boarder, all of
the cities have no name or identifiers, etc. its like they don't exist a
I don't know. I'm more inclined to vote for him now. And with the nihilistic
youth of today, there goes a large section of Obama voters.
Why vote for the lesser of two evils? (Cthulhu for president)
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh brother, what a bunc
So what does everyone think of the situation in Gerogia? The Russians
appear to have completely thrown out the post-Cold War agenda and seem
to be intent on overthrowing the democratic government of Georgia.
The Russians timed the invasion on purpose, as well. They waited until
the opening day of
Oh brother, what a bunch of whores the editors at the Nation turn out
to be. They latch onto the ravings of some obscure religious nuts as a
way to attack McCain.
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Larry wrote:
> http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/08/10885/
>
> Published on Friday, August
>Larry, I'm jealous. Thanks for the info tho!
>
I'll make sure I post photos of the events.
Seriously though check out the pubs they're really something else. We'd finish
a run and literally walk about 100 feet to the door of the pub.
Great way to finish a nice run.
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Larry, I'm jealous. Thanks for the info tho!
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Get a reservation now. Places are already filling up. Besides places in
> Whistler BC, also look at places in Squamish (just down the road from
> Whistler), north Vancover or Pe
h :-)
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> http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e68bb5a8c6
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Get a reservation now. Places are already filling up. Besides places in
Whistler BC, also look at places in Squamish (just down the road from
Whistler), north Vancover or Pemberton BC (both places nearby). Also I don't
care what the propaganda is saying, Hwy 99 (The Sea and Sky Hwy) is frequentl
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Hello list-bitchez! Coming back to the party after a long lurk
period...anyways:
I am thinking about taking the wife out to the winter Olympics in
Vancouver. Anyone here from the area and have any advice as to where to
stay? I'm currently in the pre-planning stages to see if it is something
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