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[A Welsh View] A glitch has been found in Google Earth that has moved the English/Welsh border to Port Talbot, a town around 60 miles from the official border. Google has acknowledged the glitch and has said that it give back what's ours....
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[Signs of the Times] Signs of the Times News for Fri, 27 Mar 2009: Google said the area mentioned in The Sun article reflects a mixture of bathymetric data from sonar and satellite altimetry, which provides an estimate of the ocean floor topography based on wave height. The intersection of these two data sets, which don't align perfectly, is what produces the appearance of a street grid.
[I'm A Pimpin Turtle...] Google Says: Google Earth's Atlantis Just A Data Glitch: In his book Timaeus, Plato describes Atlantis thus: "Thisgreat island lay over against the Pillars of Heracles, in extentgreater than Libya and Asia put together, and was the passage to otherislands and to a great ocean of which the Mediterranean sea was onlythe harbor; and within the Pillars the empire of Atlantis reached inEurope to Tyrrhenia and in Libya to Egypt."
[Tutorialconr Channel Blog] Google Earth 5 : 3d water motion + Google Mars (built in) + ...: This is a video on the new google earth five 3d motion of the ocean that’s what I call it and built in Google Mars and Google sky. I also cover some glitches which happened with me.
[DreamTechno.com] Google Earth's 'Atlantis' Just A Data Glitch - InformationWeek: Telegraph.co.uk. Google Earth's 'Atlantis' Just A Data Glitch InformationWeek While Google's mapping program is turning up many formerly hidden objects, a lost city under the sea isn't one of them, says a company spokesperson.
[The Right Perspective] Google Earth Reveals Atlantis ”Glitch: Google Earths new mapping of the planets sea floor terrain shows what some claim to be the fabled lost city of Atlantis, although Google contends what people are seeing is merely a glitch in the software program. The area in question, .
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[Gadget Mania Gadgets and Gadget News] Gadget Mania Gadgets and Gadget News » Blog Archive » Google Share ...: I tend to use Yahoo, but Google has positioned itself as the default search engine for browsers, so I end up using Google a lot also.My experience has been that the results of my searches are close to the same regardless of which search engine I use. Normally If I get good results with Google, I also get good results with Yahoo, and if I get poor results with Google, I get poor results with Yahoo.
[- Lou Dawson's Backcountry Skiing Blog] Grab Bag Thursday - Mini ”Puters and Sled Safety - More - Lou ...: I’m bringing a GPS, which is essential for a self guided trip (provided one can get the proper waypoints installed, which I’m having a tough time with.) Am also working on getting that integrated with Google Earth, and figuring out a way to do it all quickly enough so I still have time to sip a nice big Austrian beer or two after the day’s travels! Several of the huts have Internet, so I’ll blog from those locations, but might have to delay the trip reports for a day or two when we’re at the more basic huts.
[iePlexus] Where in the World is Google Earth? | iePlexus: “Its true that many amazing discoveries have been made in Google Earth,” said a Google spokeswoman. “In this case, however, the image is an artifact of the data collection process, not the city of Atlantis.”
[The Rogues Gallery] The Rogues Gallery » Blog Archive » Ghoulgle: Perhpas the lone takeaway from these stories is the forewarning that we are going to have access to more of these kinds of images, and hence, more of these kinds of news stories, especially as Google Street View becomes more prominent. We can hope that improvements in technology in the coming years will correct these rendering issues that GSV is encountering, but until then, ghosts, ETs, leprechauns, and fairies will be appearing all over the streets of the world.
[Comments for James Fee GIS Blog] James Fee GIS Blog » Blog Archive » ESRI DevSummit - The Gift that ...: This seems to be getting a ton of play. One thing to remember folks, yes VE is free with ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Explorer 900, but you need a valid license. If you download AGX 900 and don’t have a valid ArcGIS Desktop license, you won’t be seeing VE imagery. Yea that sucks for the world, but every ESRI user should buy Jack a drink at the UC in San Diego for paying for this.
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