Tag: LAYER

Google Earth's most awesome new layer lets you dynamically track any airline flight over the United States in real time. Well, not quite real time. For security reasons, the FAA doesn't allow live flight tracking, so Google's info is 15 or 20 minutes behind the actual planes. Still, the data (provided by Flightwise.com and the FAA) is very interesting. The flight tracking layer adds up to more ...

Google is all about buying companies. Not just any company, companies that help with their mission to organize all of the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Well, they have done it again with a site we profiled late last year, Panoramio. Panoramio was built as a Google Maps mashup that lets users map photos based on geographic locations. The company is based in ...