Google Earth: New Imagery – June

Thanks to sharp-eyed GEB reader ‘Jorge’, we see that Google has just released some fresh imagery into Google Earth!

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As is usually the case, you can use Google Maps to determine for sure whether or not a specific area is fresh. This new imagery isn’t in Google Maps yet, so you can compare Earth vs. Maps to see what’s new; the fresh imagery is already in Google Earth, but the old imagery is still in Google Maps. If you compare the two side-by-side and they’re not identical, that means that you’ve found a freshly updated area in Google Earth!


[UPDATED – 14-June, 11:35am EST]

  • Cambodia: Various areas — thanks ‘Rob’
  • North Korea: Pyonyang — thanks ‘junjun’
  • Peru: Lima — thanks ‘Jorge’
  • Romania: Small area near Sfantu Gheorghe — thanks ‘Popescu’

Samsung sold 600,000 Galaxy Tab

Galaxy Tab was created by the company Samsung with the idea to compete with iPad of Apple.Now, Samsung announced how many copies of its Galaxy Tab have been sold so far.

So far the world has sold more than 600,000 units of the device, reports The Korea Herald. The company believe that by year’s end the number will increase to 1 million copies. The official start of sales was a month ago.Samsung offers Galaxy Tab in over 30 countries.

At first glance, that sounds good. But success does not seem so high if compared to the number sold Galaxy Tab on Samsung to that of the iPad sold to Apple. To date, the Group Apple has sold 7.5 million iPad of market launch in April 2010.

National Geographic Atlas of the World, Ninth Edition

National Geographic Atlas of the World, Ninth Edition
National Geographic, 2010. Hardcover with slipcase, 424 pp. ISBN 978-1-4262-0634-4.

Book cover: National Geographic Atlas of the World, Ninth Edition National Geographic’s world atlases go in a different direction than other world atlases on the market. Instead of a relief map palette that is found virtually everywhere else, National Geographic maps are both minimalist and, for the most part, political: land is white except for coloured country outlines. (They’re also the most obvious example of the four-colour theorem in practice.) I know that the style is not to everyone’s taste, but I actually prefer it. I’ve also found that you can pack a lot more detail, legibly, onto a map in a National Geographic style than you can on a coloured relief map.

The ninth edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World comes five years after the eighth edition. Despite a new cover design, a change in the map titles’ typeface and considerable changes under the hood, the ninth edition does not represent a radical departure from the eighth. In this review, I’m going to compare the two editions rather closely to give you a sense of what has, in fact, changed.

What hasn’t changed is the sheer size of this atlas. At 47.2