Real-Time map of global disasters

Are you concern over the disasters occurring all around the world? Now you can view them in real time. This is rather a topical map, This Real-Time map of global disasters map by the National Association of Radio-Distress Signaling and Infocommunications - Emergency and Disaster Information Services (EDIS) in Hungary has put a helpful real-time map of global disaster.


In this map you can see all the global disasters happening all over the world like a series of earthquakes in United States, Finland, Norway, Russia etc. you can also see some incidents like Biological Hazard in UK, Epidemic Hazard in South Africa & Australia, Flood in Sri Lanka etc.

Find your Voting Location

The much awaited day is coming to your way, the US Election 2008 Presidentail Election is almost reached, so anyone interested doing voting can find their voting location here on Google Maps.

http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/mapplets/elections/2008/us-voter-info/us-voter-info.xml

best of luck for your candidate and go for vote.

Google Maps (for Mobile) added Transit Directions

Google Maps for Mobile have added Transit Directions for the city of New York. It will make the life easier for the people who find it difficult to steer via the network of transit stops. You can see all the public direction on your mobile using the Google Maps for Mobile application. This feature is only for the users of Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symbian Series 60, and Java-based phones. The application can be downloaded visiting this URL: http://m.google.com/nyc

more information: Google Official Blog Post

So go visit NYC without losing your directions 

Google StreetView in your Pocket!

Now you can access the Google Street View on your Mobile Phones. Google has added new feature to its application for mobiles with support of Street View and walking directions. Note you must have a BlackBerry or Java enabled phone to avail this facility.

Users can download the Google Maps application visiting www.google.com/gmm

More information can be found on Google’s website http://www.google.com/mobile/default/maps/streetview.html

Launched of Google’s GeoEye-1 Satellite

As expected Google on 6th of September, launched its own Satellite called GeoEye-1. This means now we get clearer and high resolution picture used in Google Maps. The picture could be as close as “with the capability to show detail within one square foot or so anywhere in the world!”

The images taken by the GeoEye-1 is used in different products of Google, and in applications such as: Internet mapping, Visualization and simulation modeling.

And the data begins to flow in 1 and half to 2 months of time, so it’s all set to see some beautiful and high resolutions pictures on internet in the near future.