Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle has just pushed out their June update to the 3D buildings layer. Some cities with updates include Chicago, Christchurch (New Zealand), Karachi, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Moscow. In addition, there is a big bug in this update. There is a building in western Turkey that looks like a normal house but is about 11 […]
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Cool new real-time lightning animation for GE
Reading Time: < 1 minGuiWeather has just released a network link that shows current lightning strikes (well, within a few minutes old) around the world, in the form a slick 30 minute time-animated network link. Google Earth Blog has the details.
Turning books into maps
Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle Earth Blog has a write-up describing a technology that Google is working on to scan books, dig out the location information, then plot it in Google Earth. From there, you’ll be able to browse the locations from a book, or click a location and view the page where it was mentioned. Very cool!
Some Virtual Earth drawing tools
Reading Time: < 1 minJohannes Kebeck, Technology Specialist for Virtual Earth, has just released some drawing tools to make it easier to add lines and shapes inside of VE. You can find them here. It’s shame that something as simple as drawing basic shapes in still such a chore in VE — even this solution requires a bunch of […]
Google Maps now has all of the new imagery from Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 minThe June 2nd imagery update for Google Earth is now available in Google Maps, including most of England as well as various other places around the world. Google Earth blog has the details.
Details about the new 10m Terrain area in Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 minFrank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog has just posted a file that shows exactly which areas of the western US are now covered by the 10m 3D terrain. As he suggests, you really need to head out there, turn your terrain detail up pretty high and enjoy the view!
Want to help model a city?
Reading Time: < 1 minIn an effort to get more cities modeled in 3D, Google has created a new category in the 3D Warehouse titled “Help Model a City“. They’re encouraging users such as yourself to go in there and help create some of these models. So far they have five cities listed — Ann Arbor, Michigan : Amherst, […]
Maybe Google Earth really IS aiding terrorists
Reading Time: < 1 minThis story might end up getting blown way out of proportion… The Smoking Gun is reporting that one of the men arrested in the recent JFK airport terror plot had been using Google Earth to get details on the facility. Apparently the terrorists used Google Earth to share information about various physical aspects of the […]
The state of Google Earth
Reading Time: 2 minThis was going to be a pretty boring post, since Google hasn’t revealed much about Google Earth lately. I expected some big news last week at either Where 2.0 or the Google Developer Day and there was almost nothing said. It was quite a let down. Then this morning Google announced a huge image update! […]
The state of Virtual Earth
Reading Time: 2 minI thought I’d start things out on here by talking about some recent insights and improvements to each of the three main topics on this blog – Microsoft’s Virtual Earth, Google Maps and Google Earth. We’ll start with Virtual Earth. If you haven’t used it in a few months, you need to go check it […]