Google Earth Blog Exclusive: The new Globe Glider has finally been released. Globe Glider first came out over a year ago and allowed you to tie a Google Map to Google Earth in an integrated fashion.

Globes can be had for around $20-30 on Amazon, and they can make for some nice decoration. But if you don't want to cough up that amount of money or you just don't have any space in your home for one, ...

Updates for worldwide virtual mapping applications are like buses: you wait ages for one then two come along at once. We had a spare minute this morning, so we thought we'd take a look at Virtual ...

With this update, Google Earth becomes less of a blank canvas and more of a real, actionable travel tool. The addition of 'knowledge cards,' Wikipedia-powered morsels of information about different ...

Google Earth is already a powerful tool for observing our planet, but today it’s getting a major upgrade with the introduction of a new 3D time-lapse feature. Described by Google Earth director ...

It used to be very difficult to follow the drama of an around-the-world-sailing race. But, the Internet changed all that. One of my all time favorite Internet experiences was following the 2000-2001 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In anticipation of the United Nations climate change conference scheduled to occur in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, Google Inc. is presenting a series of narrated tours through its ...

Google Map’s Street View technology now plays a significant role in Google Maps as part of the new version 6 of the mapping software. Google Earth version 6 was released Monday giving new meaning to ...

If you open Google Maps on your computer (go ahead, I’ll wait), you’ll likely see the town or city you live in, or maybe the last place you looked up. Now, zoom out. No, more than that. Keep going.

Google Earth is going through an evolution. Back in 2019, photographers Larry Strange and Joe Del Tufo traveled 1,200 miles to buy one of only two Seitz Roundshot VR Drive cameras in the United States ...

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