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The O’Reilly Media Where 2.0 2008 conference is being held this year at the San Francisco Airport Marriott. This conference is all about Web 2.0 mapping technologies like Google Maps, Google Earth, Yahoo Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, and many other mapping technologies for the developing GeoWeb. This has been one of my favorite conferences during the last two years for meeting up with the folks behind the developing Internet-based mapping technologies. To make sure I would like it this year, they invited me to be on the Program Committee.

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Getting directions online is part of our everyday rituals now, so why not do it in style? Google Earth lets you play god satellite and lets you zoom from seeing the whole earth to the roof of your house/apartment/underpass. You can get directions and not only will Google Earth map it out for you backwards and forwards, but you can “drive” the route via digital car. I’m not sure if this will help you or not, but it makes my top googolplex of cool features. My favorite thing to do is to check out other places in the world like Rome or Japan. The satellite photos of the world are updated about once a month, so you can’t really spy on anyone if that’s what your evil little mind was thinking. Here are some other cool features of Google Earth.

1. Keeps track of your favorite places
2. Option for weather information
3. Option for 3D Buildings
4. Option for traffic information
5. View the sky and get directions to the moon (please don’t try this)

Get Google Earth here

• DND Game For Google Earth – Mickey at Google Earth Hacks has been working on a new game that’s played entirely within Google Earth. It’s a massively multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG), which he is calling GEMMO. He has announced a public beta now, so you can try it out and join those who are helping give Mickey ideas on further development. The idea is you look around on the Earth and find stores, or monsters to fight. You use the layers folders on the left of GE to execute actions like fighting, buying things at stores, or checking your inventory. You need to register with his forums to get started.

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