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 ...

Google has just pushed out a fresh batch of Street View imagery in various parts of the world. Thanks to GEB reader ‘Munden’ for being the first to let us know about it! They’ve also updated imagery ...

Official Santa Tracker – Google officially teamed up with Norad (the US North American Air Defense Command), which has been tracking Santa on their radar system for many years, to officially provide ...

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.

If you’ve ever wanted to create your own Street View images, GEB reader ‘Steven’ has written an excellent how-to post that explains the entire process. You’ll need a camera and a fish-eye lens, and ...

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 ...