Google have a new blog covering their mapping products. Now, if they would only get some decent maps of Ireland into their products. I have never seen an explanation for why Google has terrible maps for Ireland. Does anybody know?
Both Yahoo maps and Microsoft's live maps have proper detailed maps for Ireland so is a mystery to me as to why Googles are so poor.

World Wind from Nasa, an open source project now available in Java looks to be a really interesting project. At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco Sun's CTO of software and Patrick Hogan of Nasa demonstrate their new open source geospatial browser in this video from CNet.