The images housed and the views espoused are in no way representative of the quality content usually found on the internet.
Another cool overhead of a port, this time in Long Beach, California
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Shipping containers awaiting final destination in Barcelona, Spain
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Sossus Vlei, Namibia [following 2 maps]
This is one looks quite different when you zoom in [+]
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map.setCenter(new GLatLng(-24.500,15.717831), 13);
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Nile River, Egypt
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The Ob River, Russia [both maps below]
Looks like […]
Gobi Desert, China:
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map.setCenter(new GLatLng(38.048,80.563173), 13);
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
map.setMapType(G_SATELLITE_MAP );
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Ganges River Delta, Bangladesh:
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map.setCenter(new GLatLng(21.98,89.7), 10);
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
map.setMapType(G_SATELLITE_MAP );
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Escalante River, Utah:
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map.setCenter(new GLatLng(37.29809,-110.893164), 13);
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
map.setMapType(G_SATELLITE_MAP );
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Yukon River Delta, Alaska:
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map.setCenter(new GLatLng(63.12,-164.08), 9);
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
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Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana:
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map.setCenter(new GLatLng(29.147364,-89.246063), 10);
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
map.setMapType(G_SATELLITE_MAP );
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[click, drag and zoom]
Now This guy has done it. He’s created an interesting Google Maps site who’s goal is to make money by using a world map to capitalize on 2 most important aspects of the interent: massive interactivty (i.e. MMORPG and the ‘Look at me’ nature of most blogs, MySpace pages, and forum posts.
He does this by […]
The terraforming of the Jumeirah Palm archipelago in Dubai, UAE begins…
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Word of the Archartis project has spread to people writing comments on Inhabitat.com..
I really need to put more time into this and get advertising on it. So many ideas.. so little time..
South Sandwich Islands
This appears to be the southernmost hi-resolution map on Google maps and the only map, as far as I can tell that has hi-res icebergs. The zoom button on the map lets you get in pretty close.
The South Sandwich Islands were discovered by Captain James Cook on February 2, […]
just wanted to test and see if Google Maps can work in a blog.
[click and drag]
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