Google has announced that they are finally shutting down the Google Earth API /plugin on Wednesday, January 11, 2017. They first announced its deprecation in December 2014, giving it a year. In … [Read more...]
Making use of the Google Earth API
July 5, 2016
Although the Google Earth API was officially deprecated back in December 2014, Google chose not to shut it down on schedule in December 2015 and have instead kept it running. Although you should not … [Read more...]
Tips for creating historical imagery animations
June 9, 2016
This post is some tips for creating historical imagery animations using the 'Historical Imagery Tour Maker' we released in yesterday's post. Tilt The Google Earth plugin, like the default setting in … [Read more...]
Advanced Historical Imagery Tour Maker with the Google Earth API
June 8, 2016
There are several different ways to automate animated historical imagery that we have explored in the past. The first, and easiest, is to use a Google Earth Tour that simply changes the date by a … [Read more...]
Where next after the Google Earth API?
December 2, 2015
With the end of the Google Earth API imminent we are having a look at what various sites that depend, or used to depend on the Google Earth API are doing about it. Earlier this year we did a showcase … [Read more...]
Wild Dogs and the Google Earth API
November 23, 2015
We recently came across this interesting article about how researchers have created a land cover map of East Africa, differentiating the areas with human land cover vs areas that remain natural. The … [Read more...]
Tour maker with the Google Earth API
November 13, 2015
With the end of life of the Google Earth API approaching, Paul van Dinther of PlanetInAction.com has decided to release a tool he created for his own use that uses the Google Earth plugin for making … [Read more...]
Google Earth API – one more month to live
November 12, 2015
In December last year Google announced the deprecation of the Google Earth API (also known as the Google Earth Plug-in). It is set to stop working one month from now on December 12th, 2015. The … [Read more...]
Ten Years of Amazing Google Earth Visualizations
June 29, 2015
Google Earth was first released on June 28, 2005. Now, in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Google Earth's release, we would like to share just a few examples of the best user applications of … [Read more...]
10 years of Google Earth innovation
June 29, 2015
In 2004 Google bought startup Keyhole Inc. whose main product was a virtual globe known as Keyhole Earthviewer. On June 28th, 2005, ten years ago yesterday, Google released the renamed Google Earth … [Read more...]