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Google Map Buddy – Big City Maps

Google Map Buddy – Big City Maps

I saw this on Lifehacker last week, a great Google Map tool for real estate. Google Map buddy allows you to easily print out wall-sized satellite views of  a neighborhood for your listing, or make a full-page street map of the neighborhood for a buyer. …

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Google Announces "Perspective Imagery"

Google Announces "Perspective Imagery"

Does Google ever stop pumping out awesome imagery (see cities in 3d)? If their new Perspective Imagery is any indication — the answer is no. Even though this imagery is very similar to Microsoft’s Birds Eye View, it’s another possible source of imagery for real…

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Cities in 3D. Seriously, This is Cool

Cities in 3D. Seriously, This is Cool

The Google team has done it again with their Cities in 3d program. You can now take a “virtual tour” through the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego, or Washington, DC. Here’s a preview video showcasing Los Angeles: WOW is all I have to say….

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Google Maps Street View Comes to Canada

Google Maps Street View Comes to Canada

Finally, Google’s Street View product comes to the streets of Canada. The other day Google added the streets of Canada to their street level photography project. You can see all of the cities/towns that have been included in their initial launch here. Interesting that Victoria…

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Even More Google StreetView Imagery Now Available

Even More Google StreetView Imagery Now Available

It’s no secret I’ve always been a fan of Google Street View. Today, there is exciting news for fellow street view fans — they’ve doubled their coverage in the United States. There are some cool images at Google LatLong that are in the new coverage…

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More Google Street View – Baltimore, DC, and Seattle

More Google Street View – Baltimore, DC, and Seattle

Yesterday, Google announced they’ve added three more highly requested cities to their street view coverage — Seattle, Baltimore, and Washington DC. Previous Geek Estate Street View coverage: Now Available: Google Street View via API Google Street View — Too Close for Comfort? Google StreetView Expands…

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Changing the World with Google MapMaker

Changing the World with Google MapMaker

This might be a little off topic and not relevant to the US market (yet), but it is “geeky” and pretty cool, so I’ll post it anyway. Google MapMaker, which is Google’s attempt at using its massive community of users to improve their Google Maps…

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The Next Generation of Mapping

The Next Generation of Mapping

This may be how the next generation will view Real Estate too. Consider the value of this to someone who is relocating. Will this technology be incorporated to the Virtual Tour in the future? This tutorial of Street View and Google Maps is quite impressive….

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Silly MLS IDX Rules

Silly MLS IDX Rules

I read some stuff the other day about how the talented crew over at Estately recently launched into the Portland, OR market, and one of the stupid MLS rules (my opinion) they had to face triggered some memories of frustrations I had faced when I…

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Want to Integrate Google Earth into a Browser-Based Web App? Now You Can

Want to Integrate Google Earth into a Browser-Based Web App? Now You Can

Today, Paul Rademacher, a Technical Lead for Google Earth, announced the release of the Google Earth browser plug-in on the Google Lat Long Blog: Today, I’m happy to announce the release of the new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the full power of Google…

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