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The Astana city administration has almost completed creation of the capital’s 3D model on Google Earth. But social service Second Astana is something more, the first spots (central block of the left-bank Astana from Bayterek to the Pyramid) of the Kazakh land in the popular virtual world of Second Life, with which the developers seem to be in the process of establishing cooperation.

Und dann gibt es eine Google Earth Bildergalerie mit den Wohnorten der Promis, die sich nach Europa zum Wohnen zurückgezogen haben.

Anyway, I was checking the place where the bomb struck last night and found the most wonderous pic on Google earth. Check it out.

You can now view your Spots using either Google Earth or Google Maps. There are a couple of ways to do this.

And the quality is not amazing, of course. But that’s not the point! Think of the potential! I am planning to blog from the road on our next trip across Serbia, and post pictures along the way too. I can even insert Google Earth/GPS links to show you where we are, hopefully. So why not subscribe to the RSS feed and keep up to date (link above)?

I’ve previously posted a model of this forthcoming attraction, but this time it’s the real thing (last time I stole a model of the London Eye). Phil, the GM - Technical Services at Singapore Flyer Pte Ltd, has kindly created an accurate model of the Singapore Flyer. You can download his model for viewing in Google Earth here.

Acromatic over at yesterday.sg drew my attention to a blog posting by kinkonkid about a 1949 map used to help Chinese travellers to Singapore. Kinkonkid provides a lot of interesting detail about the map in his posting. Acromatic thought it would make an interesting overlay in Google Earth, so that’s what I’ve done.

Turn Google Earth into Google Moon. This data set contains high resolution (21,833×10,916 pixels) ground textures and placemarks for about 9,000 lunar features.

A collection of Google Images that show the path James Kim on his quest to get help. The view from various vantage points shows the terrain and change in elevation he encountered.

“Is there a bigger scandal than this? The public security forces stopped me from taking a photograph of my country’s flag today! However, Google Earth can take pictures of whatever it wants,” he wrote sarcastically, while uploading an image of the flag from Google Earth.

The feud starts when Ashley and Emily suggest to Buddy that their new home cannot be viewed from MyEarth (a fictional Google Earth clone), and to Buddy, one way to do that is to light up his home so that it could be seen from outer space. That's the primary premise, and naturally, by doing that, you disturb the neighbours, the Finches. So begins the one-up-manship between the two guys, egos bursting and all, as they outwit and try to outlast each other, much to the disapproval of their wives and kids.