German Street View Coverage Expands

Google's limited coverage of Germany in Street View, which rolled out earlier this month in a few public areas and a single village, has now expanded to 20 cities; Google Earth Blog has a list. Previously: Street View’s Limited Rollout in Germany....

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German Street View Coverage Expands

Google’s limited coverage of Germany in Street View, which rolled out earlier this month in a few public areas and a single village, has now expanded to 20 cities; Google Earth Blog has a list.

Previously: Street View’s Limited Rollout in Germany.

German Street View Coverage Expands first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on November 18, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

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Tune In At 1PM ET For LIVE Coverage Of Facebook's Email Announcement (YHOO, GOOG, AOL, MSFT)

In just over two hours, Facebook is having another big event, reportedly to announce a new web-based email client its employees call their "Gmail killer."

A solid email offering from Facebook could be a huge deal. Other big web companies, especially leading webmail provider Yahoo, rely on email to secure their position as home base for their users on the web, driving traffic to their other properties. Google has already done a lot of damage with Gmail, which is growing rapidly while other webmail contenders decline. Facebook is trying to steal Gmail's thunder, and do further damage to Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL.

Our west coast editor will be at the event, and we'll be live blogging the event, which is at 1PM EST.

Don't miss it.

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See Also:

• Facebook Is Now The Third Most Valuable Web Company In The U.S.
• Here's How Facebook Email Is Going To Kick Gmail's Butt
• Facebook Is Launching Email On Monday

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Automated News Comes To Sports Coverage Via StatSheet

Here come the robo sports journalists. While people in the media biz worry about content mills like Demand Media and Associated Content spitting out endless SEO-targeted articles written by low-paid Internet writers, at least those articles are still written by humans. We may no longer need the humans, at least for data-driven stories. A startup in North Carolina, StatSheet, today is launching a remarkable network of 345 sports sites, one dedicated to each Division 1 college basketball tam in the U.S. For instance, there is a site for the Michigan State Spartans, North Carolina Tar Heels, and Ohio Buckeyes. Every story on each site was written by a robot, or to put it more precisely, by StatSheet's content algorithms. "The posts are completely auto-generated," says founder Robbie Allen. "The only human involvement is with creating the algorithms that generate the posts."

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The Evolution of European OpenStreetMap Coverage

I'm hard on OpenStreetMap sometimes, but that's mainly in the context of the North American coverage not living up to the rather Eurocentric hype. Because Europe is definitely where it's at with OSM, as this video chronicling the growth of its coverage in Europe since 2006 shows. Via OpenGeoData....

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European OpenStreetMap coverage evolution as time lapse video

There is an interesting time lapse video that shows the speed of the OpenStreetMap coverage evolution in Europe. It might explain why companies like Microsoft (Bing) and MapQuest have recently announced the integration of the OpenStreetMap data.

http://vimeo.com/16148504

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Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/10/25/European-OpenStreetMap-coverage-evolution-time-lapse-video

Slashgeo: European OpenStreetMap coverage evolution as time lapse video

There is an interesting time lapse video that shows the speed of the OpenStreetMap coverage evolution in Europe. It might explain why companies like Microsoft (Bing) and MapQuest have recently announced the integration of the OpenStreetMap data.

http://vimeo.com/16148504

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Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/10/25/European-OpenStreetMap-coverage-evolution-time-lapse-video