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Today Google updated their maps data and have included street maps for Thailand and Taiwan. No maps for Malaysia right now but hopefully they’re on the way. In the meantime click on either of the images below to go to the Google Maps view of that country. I can’t comment on the accuracy.........
Singapore isn’t short of food review sites, but so far few of them have taken advantage of Google Maps to help their users locate restaurants. The guys over at www.sgmapit.com have made a start by mashing up some of the data from yum.sg. You can view their map here or by clicking on the.........
As of yesterday Google have added a detailed roads layer and points of interest for Singapore to Google Earth. The roads layer lets you view the Singapore street maps that have been available for a while in Google Maps. The points of interest layer displays icons in Google Earth for Dining,.........
I’ve had a lot of hits today on this posting from December last year about the high resolution images of Darfur. The hits result from the publicity generated by some very recent work Google has done to draw attention to the problems in Darfur using Google Earth. Google have teamed up with the.........
If you live in Singapore you can’t have missed the ongoing furore over Ministerial pay. I particularly like this piece of coverage. Well here’s my contribution; a map of the world showing Prime Minister’s pay in 13 countries. This was produced using Google My Maps which is.........
Yesterday.sg have been posting a series of TV clips from the Explore Singapore! TV series. Each clip visits a Singapore heritage location. I’ve put these clips into an interactive map to make them easy to navigate. You can watch the TV clips from inside the map and also link to more.........
Maybe Google should be congratulated on a good start with making Google Maps mashups more accessible, but it seems they have a long way to go before My Maps offers a compelling platform for creating mashups. These are a few of the serious issues with the current release.There’s no way to.........
Mike at Google Maps Mania has written about a great new feature just added to Google Maps called “My Maps” and it works for maps of Singapore. My Maps allows anyone to create a Google Maps mashup with just a few clicks. Click here, or on the image below, for an example I’ve.........
www.4DWinner.com have produced a Google Map of Singapore’s lottery outlets, as their site says:“A new look for 4DWinner.com; with this improvement, our visitors can now spot the hottest spots to buy their next winning Toto Quickpick ticket! This mashup uses Google Maps and plots out.........
SBS Transit recently launched their iris NextBus service. Iris tells you the time of the next bus at any Singapore bus stop and, in my experience, it works very well. This type of application lends itself very well to mapping, so I’ve taken some of the iris data for bus routes along East.........
The New Straits Times reports that the Malaysian authorities will not ask Google to blur images of the country’s military facilities. Their reasoning seems entirely logical, any pixelation of the images will simply make it easier to identify sensitive locations, in addition the images are.........
The proposed Singapore Grand Prix is in the news again with the announcement that there will be a test drive of the route this Saturday. I previously posted the route for viewing in Google Earth which you can view here. Since then Google have announced support for kml files in the Google Maps API,.........
There’s growing activity around building Google Maps mashups for Singapore. Here’s a list of the latest mashups.Singapore Starbucks LocationsFindByClick have added Singapore to their maps of Starbucks Outlets.Singapore SchoolsTotal eBiz Solutions have produced a mashup of Singapore.........
A user going by the name of ‘giasen’ has posted some interesting charts of world oil consumption in the Google Earth Community. He’s used data from the CIA World Fact Book to plot in Google Earth World Oil Consumption By Country and World Oil Consumption Per Capita. You can view.........
A user called mehraan has posted 3D models of two Singapore condominium buildings to the Google 3D warehouse. You can download the kmz file for the Golden Hill condo building here.The kmz file for the Springdale condo’ building is here.Both have been added to the Singapore 3D collection.........
NASA have just released some Google Earth overlays showing climate data from January 2007. They will be releasing these images regularly so you’ll be able to track changes over time. There are four overlays, the screenshot below shows the Sea Surface Temperature kmz file when viewed from.........
Over at sparklette.net Veron does a great job of reviewing Singapore’s restaurants. I like Veron’s reviews because she goes into a lot of detail and includes a lot of pictures. Recently she posted her Best (and Worst) Restaurants of 2006 and I thought it deserved a map, so with her.........
I found out today about a site that provides free geocoding of Singapore Postal Codes, you can try it by clicking on the screenshot below.This is great news as it overcomes another one of the hurdles to producing Google Maps mashups for Singapore. It should now be possible to provide an easy way.........
The debate about the causes of global warming goes on, but the facts are that around the world temperatures are rising and with them so are sea levels. There are various projections available on future sea levels. The recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded.........
DigitalUrban have released a Panorama Viewer for Google Earth, you can read more about it here. I’ve tried it with a great panorama shot of Singapore’s Boat Quay which I found on Flickr.Using the Panorama Viewer I placed this photo in Google Earth and the results are quite striking,.........
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