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…

First, on Monday, it was announced that the KML format is now an international standard supported by the Open Geospatial Consortium. Google Earth Blog coverage – Google Earth’s KML Now International Standard. Then, Google Earth 4.3 was released on Tuesday (more commentary on Mashable). If…

Over at the official Google Maps API blog, there’s an announcement that Google’s Street View functionality is now accessible programmatically via an API (that’s Application Programming Interface, for those who either didn’t know or just took that acronym for granted). What this means for agents,…

At the time of this writing, Apple is holding a press release to announce their API for the iPhone; you can check out the live feed here. They’ve announced a lot of really incredible stuff so far, but the part that I was most intrigued…

Though it was announced last week, I just saw Matt Goyer’s post mentioning a major update in Bird’s Eye imagery, and thought the news worthy of passing along. Here are the US cities (counties or MSA’s in some cases) with updated imagery: Etowah Co, AL…

According to the Google Earth Blog, there are now 12 new cities that include Google Street View imagery: Albany and Schenectady, NY Boise, ID Juneau, AKR Kansas City, MO Manchester, NH Milwaukee, WI Research Triangle Park (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), NC San Antonio, TX Salt…

Since I’ve written about Google StreetView twice before, I thought this video might be of interest to some people. [via Spatially Adjusted via thevacationeers]

There’s an interesting post at webmapper that’s probably worth reading, especially if you are a techy interested in real estate – Neighbo(u)rhood 2.0 The new services and products launched by Urban Mapping, Zillow, and the Dutch CBS in the first weeks of January may herald…

Many of you may have Zolve.com blog accounts. Its a real estate focused blogging network similar to ActiveRain.com and RealTown.com. According to their site, they have plotted 4008 network participants throughout the world. What makes it nice is how the drill down shows members by…

When Zillow released their neighborhood data last Wednesday night, I was floored. My company had talked about trying to acquire similar data off and on over the past two years, but it was always too cost prohibitive to do so. As I thought about the…