Google has announced a new version of Google Earth for Android that promises "an enhanced 3D experience, quicker updates to the map, and an easier way to view your KML files in Earth". It has some … [Read more...]
News Roundup: Polar ice caps, poachers and space detectives
October 14, 2014
Polar ice caps The US National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has recently updated their KML files of Arctic and Antarctic ice to include 2014 data. We have looked at their work many times in the … [Read more...]
New Google Earth Imagery – October 4th, 2014
October 9, 2014
Thank you to GEB readers André, Martin and Maarten for letting us know that Google did an imagery update on 4th October, 2014. Imagery updates for 4th October, 2014 - Larger version. Google has … [Read more...]
Moving to the new My Maps
September 25, 2014
Back in 2007 Google first introduced My Maps which allowed anyone to create and share their own maps directly in the Google Maps interface. Since then Google Maps has received a significant upgrade … [Read more...]
Google Earth automatically generated 3D areas
September 4, 2014
Thanks to GEB reader 'ehog' for letting us know that Győr, Hungary got the new 3D mesh recently. Google first announced their method of generating 3D via stereophotogrammetry from aerial imagery in … [Read more...]
64-bit Chrome drops support for Google Earth Plugin
September 3, 2014
We told you in July about the Chrome team's announcement last year that they planned to remove NPAPI support from Chrome by the end of 2014. This includes the Google Earth plugin that uses … [Read more...]
New Google Earth Imagery – August 13th and 26th, 2014
September 2, 2014
We told you a couple of weeks ago about an imagery update on August 5th. Since then, Google has done at least two more updates, on August 13th and August 26th. Thanks to GEB readers André and 'Munden' … [Read more...]
Digital Globe releases first images from WorldView-3
August 28, 2014
We told you a couple of weeks ago about the launch of DigitalGlobe's latest satellite, WorldView-3. On Tuesday, August 18, less than two weeks after its launch, they released the first images from … [Read more...]
New Google Earth Imagery – August 5th, 2014
August 21, 2014
[Update: The map and KML in this post automatically updates as Google updates their Maps Gallery version. As of this update, the map being displayed is for August 13th, 2014.] It appears Google … [Read more...]
Street View now available in Serbia
July 25, 2014
Thanks to sharp-eyed GEB reader 'Nikola', we've learned that Street View imagery is now available in a number of cities in Serbia. Some of the new cities include Pancevo, Novi Sad, Belgrade and … [Read more...]