Compare maps using Flash Earth

Flash Earth is a very cool mashup which lets you enter an address, find a location and switch between several mapping application aerial/satellite views - like Google Maps, Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps, and more. This is a very handy way to quickly check to see if other aerial databases have a different view of a selected location.

There is something more...Flash Earth can now be used within Google Earth 4.2! As you move around the globe a little white arrow follows you around, simple click it to get an approximation of the current view in FlashEarth in a popup balloon. Click here to download the application.

Virtual Town created using ESRI's ArcScene and Google SketchUp

This video shows a fly-over of a virtual reconstruction of Morgantown, West Virginia in 1900. Over 350 historic structure models were created in SketchUp, and then imported into ESRI's ArcScene to generate the final virtual town.

For information on how the the guys from the Laboratory for Geographic Information Science at West Virginia University did it, including the workflow, a picture gallery, and other information, visit their project web site. They also created a Virtual Morgantown collection of models in the the 3D Wareouse.