We recently came across this interesting article on the DigitalGlobe blog. It is about using imagery crowd-sourcing site Tomnod to count seals in DigitalGlobe satellite imagery of Antarctica. The ...

If you’re ready to do some exploring, an amazing compilation of sites assembled by Andy at The Megalithic Portal will keep you busy for hours! He’s released a compilation of more than 25,000 ...

New York 3D in New GE. Google has released a new version of Google Earth today that has been re-designed for a new generation of 3D mapping applications.

About Timothy Whitehead. Timothy has been using Google Earth since 2004 when it was still called Keyhole before it was renamed Google Earth in 2005 and has been a huge fan ever since.

The Google Earth Flight Simulator is one of those features that many people overlook. Here are some tips to make the most of it. With the the release of Google Earth 4.2 back in 2007, Google added ...

About Frank Taylor. Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was ...

A tour of Hoover Dam, Nevada, USA, which has recently received 3D imagery.. If you are wondering how we created the tour above – we used a Space Navigator, which makes flying around Google Earth ...

I hope that embedding thing is used sparingly. Like the Google Earth Web version in general, It’s an obscene resource hog, Just loading this page caused Chrome to grab an extra 600MB of working ...

If you’re wondering what Google Earth experts do to make things run faster or better, this post describes tips on how to set up your Google Earth options (“Preferences” on the Mac).

While exploring Google Earth’s 3D imagery, you will probably have noticed that even in the busiest cities, people are largely absent. This is because of the way the 3D imagery is captured.

As the latest versions of Google Earth and Google Earth Pro appear to have the same version numbers [7.1.3.1557] according to the GE auto-updates page, it would be helpful to know how to tell ...

In yesterday’s post we mentioned that Google Earth’s measurements did not match ours, which used the Haversine formula.So we decided to investigate a bit more. The Haversine formula assumes ...