Google maps ahora nos permite explorar el océano
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: Os dejo un vídeo introductorio:
Street View goes to the Amazon
With Google Street View, you can do amazing things such as hike around Stonehenge or even ski down Whistler’s slopes—all without leaving home. Soon, you’ll be able to float down the Amazon and Rio Negro Rivers of northwest Brazil and experience some of the most remote and biodiverse areas in the world. A few members of our Brazil and U.S.
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Google ahora nos permite explorar la Antártida con imágenes panorámicas
Desde el blog oficial de Google me llega una nueva noticia, esta vez dirigida a todos los que nos gusta explorar el mundo mediante imágenes panorámicas. En la nota Google recuerda que: En el invierno de 1913, un periódico británico publicó un anuncio para promover la última expedición a la Antártida imperial, al parecer colocado por el explorador polar Ernest Shackleton. La nota decía: Se buscan hombres para viaje peligroso.
Google Takes Street View Photography into the Wild with Camera Backpacks
Google has already photographed quite a bit of our world using a fleet of cars, submarine-style cameras, tricycles, and snowmobiles, so what else is there to include in Street View? Places where vehicles can’t go, of course. The company has begun capturing 360-degree imagery using the Trekker — a special backpack with a Street View camera rig sticking up from the top. The special new 40-pound rig will allow Street View to include panoramas from places like mountains, jungles, hiking trails, ancient ruins, and much more. Google published this short teaser for the rig back in June to give the world an idea of what it’s planning: Nathan Olivarez-Giles of Wired explains what the rig comprises and how it works:
ArkGIS - Exploring the Arctic
Dive into the Great Barrier Reef with the first underwater panoramas in Google Maps
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.
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Become an Antarctic explorer with panoramic imagery
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.
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