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Latest Google Earth Imagery map – December 17th, 2014. Larger Version. As is traditional at this time of year, let us look back at previous updates and see how Google is doing. Google provides a ...
Yesterday we had a look at the progress made by Google in releasing 3D imagery for Google Earth. For this we used this KML map that we maintain that shows the areas covered by 3D imagery.
In the early days of Google Earth the US White House and Capitol Building were blurred in Google Earth. But in 2005 this censorship was stopped, and today, there is high quality satellite imagery ...
A lot of people wonder about Google Earth imagery. Why is the image of my house so old? Why can’t I get a picture of my car accident from a month ago? Why doesn’t Google get newer pictures?
New York 3D in New GE Google has released a new version of Google Earth today that has been re-designed for a new generation of 3D mapping applications. This first release is not a program you ...
Ever since Google Earth was first released, users have been spotting aircraft in flight in the imagery. When an aircraft is captured in flight in Google Earth it is not uncommon for it to have a ...
Since the latest update to the Google Earth client, we have recently had a number of people contact us saying that their Google Earth icon has disappeared. In some cases they have tried to ...
Thanks to GEB reader ‘ehog’ for letting us know that Győr, Hungary got the new 3D mesh recently. However, there has been no easy way to find the new automatically generated 3D areas that ...
DigitalGlobe has since captured aerial imagery of the site of the wreck, which can be found in their gallery or viewed below. I’ve added that image to Google Earth as an image overlay, which you ...
The region around Shenzhen, China, 1985 vs 2016 Note that the new data is created by blending all Landsat/Sentinel 2 data for a whole year to remove clouds and snow cover. The result is that ...
We recently came across this article featuring Google Earth imagery showing the town of Pilger, Nebraska, before and after a tornado. After a bit of research, it appears that the newly added image ...
In the past we have looked at an island that doesn’t exist, islands being formed, islands combining to form a bigger island and a disappearing islet.Today we are looking at how China is turning ...