Seifi.org » maps http://www.seifi.org A Web Development Blog by Joe Seifi - seifi.org Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:08:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Photo Mapping with Google Street View http://www.seifi.org/google/google-street-view.html http://www.seifi.org/google/google-street-view.html#comments Thu, 31 May 2007 16:20:44 +0000 Joe Seifi http://www.seifi.org/google/google-street-view.html Street View USA Google released the preview of its 3D mapping service named “Street View”. You can see this view as a new layer in addition to Satellite and Traffic in Google Maps. Street View shows you eye level photos of the current location. It is currently only offered for major metropolitan cities of San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, New York, and Miami.

Vegas Google Maps Street View

Here is a Video Tutorial

The photos are taken from the top of a VW Bug with a circular camera mounted on top from using technology from Immerse Media, which makes possible services such as 3D Videos and Video Maps with lot of features.

Immersive Car with Camera

It will be exciting to see mashups using street view. For example fatdoor would rock if it used street views. Microsoft also has a comparable preview of street mapping out which is available for San Francisco and Seattle, and the A9 maps service which was probably the first attempt at street level photo mapping is no longer available.

]]> http://www.seifi.org/google/google-street-view.html/feed 1 Find Latitude and Longitude Using maps.google.com http://www.seifi.org/javascript/find_latitude_and_longitude_using_maps_google_com.html http://www.seifi.org/javascript/find_latitude_and_longitude_using_maps_google_com.html#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Joe Seifi Here is a php script that gets the Latitude and Longitude of any address using the google maps API. The original script comes from Ken. I just made some minor adjustments to it and made it dynamic. This basically parses a JavaScript blob returned from the API and extracts the lat and long values. ]]> Here is a php script that gets the Latitude and Longitude of any address using the google maps API.

The original script comes from Ken. I just made some minor adjustments to it and made it dynamic.

This basically parses a JavaScript blob returned from the API and extracts the lat and long values.

If you’re feeling hackish, another neat trick found by qmchenry exposes Google Map’s JavaScript object and fires a series of functions to get the the lat and long values of the currently centered location in the browser. Just paste this JS into your address bar after you have searched for your address on google maps.

javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
]]> http://www.seifi.org/javascript/find_latitude_and_longitude_using_maps_google_com.html/feed 12 Google Earth, Oh My God! http://www.seifi.org/software/google_earth__oh_my_god.html http://www.seifi.org/software/google_earth__oh_my_god.html#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Joe Seifi Finally, I crawled out of the hole and tried Google Earth. You will never look at maps the same way again. This thing is simply amazing. Wow! OK I just spent 1 hour looking at my city and took a 3-D virtual tour of the Grand Canyon. I stopped only because my machine froze. Perhaps it had to do with the amount of processing or graphics, or network usage. It's like playing video games with our little planet Earth. The real power of the software is in layers. Just like a Photoshop document, you can stack up layers of map data in Google Earth. Some of the many layers offered are, National Geographic Magazine, Keyhole Community BBS, Businesses, Roads, Terrain, Buildings, Borders, Crime Stats, Postal Code Boundaries, 3D buildings, Earthquakes and Populated places. The Google Earth software is currently in beta and is offered in Free, Plus, and Pro formats for Windows based PCs with lots of RAM and 3D graphics cards. I would guess almost all people who bought or built a PC or laptop in the past two years are in good shape. So Google has now officially entered the business of selling software. Besides Toolbar, Desktop, and Talk there are a slew of other helper applications. While Microsoft is going online with Live, Google is going "soft".]]> Finally, I crawled out of the hole and tried Google Earth. You will never look at maps the same way again. This thing is simply amazing. Wow! OK I just spent 1 hour looking at my city and took a 3-D virtual tour of the Grand Canyon. I stopped only because my machine froze. Perhaps it had to do with the amount of processing or graphics, or network usage. It’s like playing video games with our little planet Earth. The real power of the software is in layers. Just like a Photoshop document, you can stack up layers of map data in Google Earth. Some of the many layers offered are, National Geographic Magazine, Keyhole Community BBS, Businesses, Roads, Terrain, Buildings, Borders, Crime Stats, Postal Code Boundaries, 3D buildings, Earthquakes and Populated places. The Google Earth software is currently in beta and is offered in Free, Plus, and Pro formats for Windows based PCs with lots of RAM and 3D graphics cards. I would guess almost all people who bought or built a PC or laptop in the past two years are in good shape. So Google has now officially entered the business of selling software. Besides Toolbar, Desktop, and Talk there are a slew of other helper applications. While Microsoft is going online with Live, Google is going “soft”.

]]> http://www.seifi.org/software/google_earth__oh_my_god.html/feed 0 Map This! http://www.seifi.org/searching/map_this.html http://www.seifi.org/searching/map_this.html#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Joe Seifi home or apartment, and with gassbuddy to find cheap gas or see traffic and weather conditions. There's also one working with imdb to search movies, and a ride finder. And here's what they look like when you get there :) Also, if you wanna do some armchair sightseeing, try some interesting google sattelite maps. Microsoft's TerraServer also has its own famous places. Very similar results. Yesterday Google unveiled its plans for Google Earth, with 3D buildings support! Today there is a new site up, Chicago Crime that combines police data with Google Maps to show crimes in the Chicago area. See who's HOT or NOT in your zipcode, using this clever combo!]]> If you like google maps, try it mixed with craigslist to find your next home or apartment, and with gassbuddy to find cheap gas or see traffic and weather conditions. There’s also one working with imdb to search movies, and a ride finder. And here’s what they look like when you get there :)

Also, if you wanna do some armchair sightseeing, try some interesting google sattelite maps. Microsoft’s TerraServer also has its own famous places. Very similar results.

Yesterday Google unveiled its plans for Google Earth, with 3D buildings support! Today there is a new site up, Chicago Crime that combines police data with Google Maps to show crimes in the Chicago area.

See who’s HOT or NOT in your zipcode, using this clever combo!

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