Did you know Google Earth has a built-in flight simulator? One of the coolest features Google added to Google Earth was the built-in Flight Simulator (a feature originally added as an easter egg in … [Read more...]
Meograph adds search features
April 26, 2013
We've been fans of Meograph since we first showed them you nearly a year ago. In that time they've made a wealth of improvements, and the latest update is another great feature -- … [Read more...]
The Google Earth Satellite Tracker
April 3, 2013
Since the creation of this blog in 2005, our page featuring satellites in orbit around Earth has remained our most popular page on the site with over 650,000 page views in the past eight years. There … [Read more...]
Meograph adds paid licenses
March 28, 2013
We've been big fans of Meograph since we first discovered it last May. Their "four-dimensional storytelling" makes it very easy to create digital stories that include audio, video, images, text and … [Read more...]
New iOS app to view the SES Astra satellite info
February 4, 2013
Last year we showed you the excellent satellite info from the folks at SES Astra. They created a great map that showed the locations and details of their 50 satellites. Now they've released an iPad … [Read more...]
Cycling the Alps releases Android App
January 8, 2013
A little more than two years ago we introduced you to the excellent Cycling the Alps website. They feature hundreds of Google Earth tours of various cycing routes in the Alps, and they've added many … [Read more...]
View all of your Google Contacts in Google Earth
October 29, 2012
Here's a neat script from digital inspiration that can grab your contact list from Google Contacts and covert them into a big KML file to view in Google Earth. If you use Google for your main contact … [Read more...]
FieldNotes LT: Take geo-located notes on your Android device
September 25, 2012
Nick is an environmental engineering student at UC Berkeley, and has worked with a professor there to produce an app that allows you to take geo-location based notes, attach photos, and export the … [Read more...]
Creating a New Life with Google Earth
August 17, 2012
Earlier this week we talked about variety of uses for Google Earth in the classroom, and Donald emailed us with another one -- "A New Life", by Classroom Copilot. Using Google Earth, you create a new … [Read more...]
Meograph opens to all users
July 23, 2012
We first told you about the excellent Meograph tool back in May when they opened for limited beta testing. It is a tool for creating "four dimensional story-telling" with remarkable potential, and … [Read more...]