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It appears that Google has just pushed out some new Street View imagery for a few countries:

Andorra: most of the country

Chile: Santiago, Concepcion, and Valpraraiso

Croatia: most of the country

Check it out for yourself on Google Maps or in Google Earth. If you've not used Street View in Google Earth before, here's a quick video to show you how it works:

(via +Dave Spracklen)

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Nick is an environmental engineering student at UC Berkeley, and has worked with a professor there to produce an app that allows you to take geo-location based notes, attach photos, and export the notes in a nice Google Earth KMZ format. The app is very simple and works well.

Evernote and other note-taking apps offer some geolocation features, but it is difficult to get those notes into Google Earth. With this app, it's quite easy to write a note, snap a photo, and email the KMZ to anyone you'd like.

Here's the result of one I just did:

While the app is simple and works well, there were a few oddities:

1 - When I saved it, I had a few choices on what to do with the KMZ file (email, etc), but "View it in Google Earth on Android" wasn't one of them. That may be more of an issue with my setup than with the app, but it was surprising since the latest version of Google Earth on Android supports KML files.
2 - The photo shows up sideways in Google Earth.
3 - I had to take a new photo; couldn't select one from my gallery instead.
4 - The pin is on my current location, and is accurate, but would be nice to choose an alternate location.

In any case, it's a handy little app for $0.99, and could be very useful for some people depending on what they need to accomplish. You can find it on Google Play here. No word on an iOS version, but time will tell.

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Late last week, the Space Shuttle Endeavour flew atop a 747 into White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The shuttle continued its journey to Edwards Air Force Base in California. In October, The Space Shuttle Endeavour will be moved via road to a special display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

During the flight, DigitalGlobe captured an amazing image of the shuttle, which can be seen here:

You'll notice that the color is a bit off in the image. The reason for that, as explained by DigitalGlobe:

In this image, the color offset of the aircraft occurs when a fast moving object is imaged by the satellite as the panchromatic image is collecting just slightly before the color image of the same location. When the image is merged together to make a color high resolution image, there is a slight offset on fast moving objects.

If you want to check it out for yourself, you can view it in Google Earth with this image overlay KML file that I created.

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