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It's officially called Google Earth 5.0, but the new oceanographic additions to Google Earth are certainly remarkable enough to merit the Google Ocean moniker. That said, Google Ocean doesn't really begin to cover the extent of the recent Google Earth additions. In addition to a bathymetric map of the ocean floor, there's historical imagery (watch a place develop over time), a touring option (the ability to create your own "tour" of an area), and views of friggin' MARS, which is patchier than Earth but still pretty rad. Is there anything Google can't do? Powerful as it is, the internet giant had a lot of help in this endeavor. Parts of Google Ocean came from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Dive and Discover feature, which allows you to, well, dive into the ocean and discover amazing things down there. Woods Hole contributed images and journal entries from various deep sea trips to Google Earth's expansion into "charted" waters.

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt,...

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with...

It's been a while since we've found a good Google map mash-up that we like. But in our unwavering passion for cartography and the recent upturn in our interest in looking skyward (well, the last two days – not this morning all full of rain) we are taking a look at two extra terrestrial mapping services. One actually maps the unidentified extra terrestrials as they've been spotted from the Earth, the other maps those hunks of junk we've purposefully sent into space to orbit the earth.

No longer is Bostonist's passion for cartography, especially on the interweb, a closely held secret. We could go ahead and link to all those times we've talked about Google Maps in past posts, but that would be a long list and we'd rather point you towards our new search tool, Rollyo, at the bottom of the page. Mapquest used to be the standard for online mapping, yahoo encroached, but Microsoft was slow to the...