Social spying, cont.: Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Iran and North Korea’s deployment of S-200 surface-to-air missile systems, courtesy of Sean O’Connor in his IMINT & Analysis blog, using copious screenshots from Google Earth.
GPS with iPhone: Does the iPhone do GPS tracking? In a manner of speaking, yes, albeit convolutedly, using an external GPS tracker and Mologogo. Details here.
3D on a 2D Map:AfterCAD announces a georeferenced publishing solution for their 3D models that uses Google Maps. Surely that is a mistake, and they mean Google Earth? No, Google Maps-based it is. Click on an icon on the map, and get a popup containing a 3D model. I’m not convinced this web-based mapping solution is as compelling as, say, Microsoft Virtual Earth, though it does work on the Mac.