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For Google Maps, Diplomacy Trumps Geography

In recent years Google Maps have become a go-to source for web-based mapping. They provide visualizations of virtually any location on Earth to varying degrees of detail, depending on the region. But as Google has gained a foothold in markets around the world, adapting its versions to different countries and languages, an inevitable problem has emerged: how do you delineate international boundaries when they are disputed by multiple countries? Continue reading

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Wrangling Google Earth into submission: Part II

In our second installment of our Worldfocus Google Earth tips, I’d like to demonstrate another workaround that helped us zoom in on a given region more effectively. If you’ve ever tried to zoom in from a very high to a … Continue reading

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Wrangling Google Earth into submission

In addition to editing video and keeping track of the goings-on in Europe and Brazil, lately I’ve developed another pastime: learning how to use Google Earth, the alternately fascinating and infuriating global satellite technology. Using the detailed mapping software, you … Continue reading

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