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Google Maps Mania: Google Crisis Map for New York City
Google has created a New York specific Crisis Response map for Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy: NYC features layers to display evacuation zones, open shelters, weather information and live webcams. The map also includes a storm surge layer that shows the probability of a storm surge over six feet in the city. The Google Crisis Response page also includes a number of useful links, incuding to New York City's official emergency notification system and the National Hurricane Center advisories. You can easily share and embed this map on your website by clicking the "Share" button at the top right hand corner of the map and grabbing the embed code. <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>Hay un montón de cosas para hablar sobre Google Maps e iOS 6 en este momento, pero Google ha literalmente sumergido esa charla a fondo del océano por los momentos. El gigante de las búsquedas ha lanzado una nueva característica que trae imágenes bajo el agua para su servicio de Google Maps, permitiendo a los usuarios hacer submarinismo virtual en la Gran Barrera de Coral, Filipinas y Hawai. Me impresionó bastante cuando Google nos trajo imágenes de 360º panorámicas de la Antártida hace poco y, asimismo, la introducción de los mapas bajo el agua es uno de esos momentos en que Internet fue construido para permitir – a millones de personas tener un gusto personal de algunas de las vistas más espectaculares del mundo. El servicio está todavía en sus inicios, y relativamente limitados en cuanto a los lugares que son compatibles, pero se pueden contemplar las maravillas acuáticas siguientes, sin necesidad de tener que mojarnos:
Google maps ahora nos permite explorar el océano
Google ahora nos permite explorar la Antártida con imágenes panorámicas
Dive into the Great Barrier Reef with the first underwater panoramas in Google Maps | Official Google Blog
Today we’re adding the very first underwater panoramic images to Google Maps, the next step in our quest to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate and usable map of the world. With these vibrant and stunning photos you don’t have to be a scuba diver—or even know how to swim—to explore and experience six of the ocean’s most incredible living coral reefs. Now, anyone can become the next virtual Jacques Cousteau and dive with sea turtles, fish and manta rays in Australia, the Philippines and Hawaii.In the winter of 1913, a British newspaper ran an advertisement to promote the latest imperial expedition to Antarctica, apparently placed by polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. It read, " Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success. " While the ad appears apocryphal, the dangerous nature of the journey to the South Pole is certainly not—as explorers like Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott and Shackleton himself discovered as they tried to become the first men to reach it. Back in September 2010, we launched the first Street View imagery of the Antarctic , enabling people from more habitable lands to see penguins in Antarctica for the first time.

