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What’s that image: United States

April 12, 2016

Yesterday we had a look at the most recent Google Earth imagery update. Today, we are having a look at what interesting sights can be found in the imagery, specifically in the United States. In a later post we will look at other parts of the world.

We have looked at the work of Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada before. Another of his works is now visible in the Google Earth imagery of San Antonio, Texas. It is called Nyssa, after its subject, Nyssa Gomez. Read more about it on the artists website.


Nyssa, by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada.

We have already had a look at Super Bowl 50 in Google Earth. The Super Bowl title was won by the Denver Broncos, and when they got back home to Denver, Colorado, they held a victory parade. See ground level photos of the event here.


Crowds gathered for the Denver Broncos victory parade.

Heavy rains in December 2015 resulted in the flooding of the Mississippi River. We mentioned it at the time and had a look at previous Mississippi flooding events. Now, there is quite a lot of imagery in Google Earth relating to the event. St. Louis, Missouri, is at the confluence of three large rivers, the Mississippi River, the Missouri River and the Illinois River. There are a number of satellite images of the region captured in early January showing the flooding. There was more flooding in March but no related imagery as yet.

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Flooding in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Flooding in St. Louis, Missouri.

There are also images further down the Mississippi as the water travelled south.

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Flooding of the Mississippi near Osceola, Arkansas.

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Flooding of the Mississippi near Arkansas City, Arkansas.

There was a Tornado in Dallas, Texas, which was part of the same group of Tornadoes as the one we featured yesterday. See some aerial images here. There is an image of Dallas in Google Earth that was captured a few days after the Tornado in response to the event. But, based on this map we believe the main path of the tornado started just north of the image. There is also this funny story relating to the event. A demolition company charged with demolishing one of the houses damaged by the tornado relied a bit too heavily on Google Maps and demolished the wrong house!

For all the locations featured in this post, including outlines for some of the relevant imagery, download this KML file. Remember that much of the imagery can only be seen by switching to ‘historical imagery’.

Filed Under: Site News Tagged With: flood, jorge rodriguez-gerada, mississippi, super bowl, what's that image

Super Bowl 50 in Google Earth

February 5, 2016

The Super Bowl is one of the largest annual sporting events in the USA. Super Bowl 50 takes place this Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

Google has recently done an imagery update and the latest image for the stadium is dated February 1st, 2016. The image is not yet in ‘historical imagery’. To see it, locate the stadium and turn off the 3D buildings layer.


Levi’s Stadium February 1st, 2016.


Levi’s Stadium in 3D.

Levi’s Stadium was also host to Wrestle Mania 31 in March 2015 and the event can be seen in Google Earth historical imagery:

To find the stadium and a few other stadiums from past Super Bowls in Google Earth, download this KML file.

We have also looked at various other Super Bowl stadiums in the past.

Filed Under: Site News Tagged With: super bowl

Google Earth plugin showcase: Gaiagi Driver

February 2, 2015

This is the eighth in our series on the Google Earth plugin. Today, we are looking at Gaiagi Driver that we first looked at back in 2008. Six years on and it still works well, although a reasonably fast internet connection is recommended.

Gaiagi Driver should not be seen as a driving simulator, but rather a route planner. You select the route you plan to drive, and it will get the directions and then show you your route on Google Maps, in the Google Earth plugin, in Street View and with Microsoft’s 45 degree imagery from Bing Maps.

So go ahead and try it out. You will need the Google Earth plugin installed, a browser that supports the Google Earth plugin, and for most browsers you must now give permission for the plugin to run on the site.

University of Phoenix Stadium
The University of Phoenix Stadium where Super Bowl XLIX took place yesterday.

Filed Under: GE Plugin Tagged With: Gaiagi driver, Google Earth plugin, Google Earth plugin showcase, super bowl

Exploring MetLife Stadium, home of the Super Bowl, in Google Earth

January 30, 2014

With the Super Bowl coming up in a few days, Google has created a variety of tours of MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.  Because that area doesn’t yet have “3D Imagery”, the model of the stadium is still the “old” style and is remarkably sharp and includes 3D goalposts and many 3D objects (such as trees) around the stadium.

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While you can certainly fly there and check it out for yourself (searching Google Earth for “MetLife Stadium” should take you there), Google has created a handful of Google Earth tours to help show it off.  The files are fairly simple, but do a nice job of showing off the stadium.

To make the files easy to grab, they’ve uploaded them to a special Google Drive folder.  Inside you’ll find four tours, each available as either a KML file (for use in Google Earth) or an MOV file to watch directly in your browser.

For other (American) football resources, check out Google’s list of all 245 college football stadiums, a great look at the Dallas Cowboys stadium, or a simple game of football that you can play inside of Google Earth.

(via +Google for Media)

Filed Under: 3D Models, Sightseeing, Sports Tagged With: metlife stadium, super bowl

Cowboys Stadium, home of this years Super Bowl, looks great in 3D

February 4, 2011

As recently mentioned on the Google Lat Long blog, Cowboys Stadium — the home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys and host of the Super Bowl this year — looks amazing in 3D!
Like a few other recent areas, including the guide to Turkey that we posted this morning, the inside of the stadium is built out as well.

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The interior is quite interesting; on one had, they have excellent details such as all of the handrails around the stadium. On the other hand, the imagery for the field itself is quite fuzzy. Still, it’s very cool to be able to fly around inside the stadium.
To see it for yourself, you can fly there in Google Maps “Earth View”, use this KML file to fly there in Google Earth, or watch the short video below that gives a nice tour of the model.

Filed Under: 3D Models, Sightseeing Tagged With: super bowl

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