Solar Roof is a Google Maps mashup that can calculate the solar potential of a roof. If you ever wanted to find out if it would make sense to put solar collectors on your roof you can do so now by using the free service. This can be quite an efficient first analysis of the [...]

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I’m writing this article rather excited because of what I have just seen. Panoramic photos recently started to be very popular when the first algorithms and applications for creating such images appeared and digital cameras were given support for this specific kind of shooting. Publishing such shots on Flickr or any other similar site sure is fine but I’ve just hit a service that serves panoramic photos in a breath-taking way.

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Now ain’t that interesting ? You can use Google Maps to get directions from one location to another. It is most of the time pretty accurate displaying information about highways, signs, exits and so on to give you a good impression of the route that lies ahead. You can try it now and head over to the Google Maps website and use the Get Directions tab to enter a starting point and destination to see how the system works.

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I thought I pass this great find on to my readers here at ghacks. Google Maps Flight Simulator is a nice little application that uses various google map locations like London, Paris and Tokyo and add a plane that you can steer on the map. If you ever wanted to fly over a town this [...]

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Everyone knows the map service of google and the google maps nighttime shows the earth at night (and dusk). Looks great if you ask me. Lets you zoom in and out like in every other google map.

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