I’ve been considering writing some new posts (just a few now and then) about what’s been going on with further development of Google Earth applications (for mobile, the web, desktop, and VR), and for ...

During 2006, Google made a substantial investment in adding new imagery to the Google Earth/Maps imagery database. Google hasn’t released the numbers, but I think the significance of the data made ...

This is pretty interesting. I read about this at Ionut Alex. Chitu’s blog. In honor of the celebration of the national holiday Australia Day 2007 on January 26, Google has announced it will be taking ...

A guy named Michael Heizer has been working on a sculpture for 30 years. He’s building what looks like Aztec buildings in the middle of nowhere in the Nevada desert. I found this story while browsing ...

Brian Flood, author of the Arc2Earth extension for ArcGIS, has written an excellent white paper describing the new features and some possible applications of the new KML 2.1 in combination with GE4.

We’ve been getting quite an influx of questions about how to correct map errors in Google Earth lately (address in the wrong location, point of interest is missing, etc), so I thought it’d be worth ...

The 7th leg of the Volvo Ocean Race round-the-world yacht race has been going on for a week. They left New York headed for Portsmouth, England – a distance of about ...

Your Town in 3D – Google describes how a small town in Tennessee has started a project to model their town in 3D. Google has even donated Google Earth Pro and SketchUp Pro licenses and is providing ...

New York City – nearly complete rendition of photo-realistic buildings. Thousands of buildings. Portland, Oregon – One of the first cities with “gray” non-textured buildings in GE. Now with ...

Speaking of Ogle, I just found out that there’s a new beta version of Google Earth available when you download Google Earth called version 3.0.0529. One new feature allows you to share a Placemark ...

Several things of interest are in my queue, so here is a roundup: Today is a holiday in the US, our Independence Day, so I will be busy lounging around the pool all day and watching fireworks tonight.

Last year the Google Earth Team contributed to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in a very unique fashion. They worked with Red Cross, NOAA, FEMA, and other government organizations to provide ...