groovyHacks.com » google maps http://groovyhacks.com Daily Groovy Geek Hacks Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:13:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Google Earth Gets Insanely Accurate Flight Tracking http://groovyhacks.com/226/geekhacks/google-maps-gets-insanely-accurate-flight-tracking/ http://groovyhacks.com/226/geekhacks/google-maps-gets-insanely-accurate-flight-tracking/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:47:07 +0000 grooveDexter http://groovyhacks.com/226/geekhacks/google-maps-gets-insanely-accurate-flight-tracking/ At least, it is as accurate as the FAA will allow.  For security reasons Google’s tracking is 15-20 minutes behind the live location of the plane.  Of course, anyone with some decent navigation and math skills and the flight path could do the math and get the real location without much trouble.

Google Flight Path tracking

More on the subject from Google here.…

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Google continued to improve Google Maps this week.  Minor Styles Updated, Major Improvements made!

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