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Google is again expanding the number of cities it supports for its Building Maker tool. The tool enables users to quickly and easily create 3D models of the most interesting buildings in their towns, and from around the world, which can then be included in Google Earth and Maps for everyone to enjoy."Today’s Go... |
15 December 2010
06:40 GMT |
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Google's Demo Slam project is moving along nicely and there are some rather interesting entries already. Already, some are taking it to extremes such as a bunch of people from Japan skydiving to showcase Google Earth. Technically, skydiving doesn't exactly describe what they're doing, but the whole set... |
13 December 2010
11:08 GMT |
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One of Google's biggest advantages is its massive amounts of data and the computing power at its disposal. It enables Google teams to quickly build and scale projects without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. Google is now donating some of its computing power to help analyze and understand all... |
3 December 2010
15:56 GMT |
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Google Earth 6 was introduced yesterday and one of the big new features is 3D trees. Sure, it's a cosmetic feature, but it's an impressive feat considering the scale at which it has been implemented. Google says some 80 million trees have been recreated for Google Earth with many more on the way. "We stri... |
30 November 2010
13:23 GMT |
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Google has launched version 6.0 of its Earth application for Mac, Windows, and Linux, featuring two major new additions - a fully integrated Street View experience and… around 80 million three-dimensional trees.“Today we’re introducing the latest version of Google Earth, our interactive digital atl... |
30 November 2010
10:49 GMT |
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Google has just released Google Earth 6, the latest major version of the 3D mapping software. The new release comes with plenty of updates, notable among which are 3D trees, better Street View integration and easier to spot historical imagery.
"Today we’re introducing the latest version of Google Earth, our in... |
29 November 2010
14:18 GMT |
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Panoramic photos are becoming increasingly popular and a number of enthusiasts around the world are participating in an informal competition of sorts for the world's biggest panorama. The record now belongs to Jeffrey Martin which revealed a 80 gigapixel panorama of London.Martin is no ordinary photographer, he&... |
18 November 2010
08:25 GMT |
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Google has announced that three more Japanese cities are now available in 3D in Google Earth and the Earth View in Maps. There are now seven cities in Japan where 3D buildings are available in the two Google products."Today, we’re happy to announce that three more Japanese cities are viewable in 3D in Google Ea... |
18 November 2010
05:27 GMT |
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Panoramic photos are becoming increasingly popular, if only because it's a way of doing something a bit more original now that DSLRs are pretty affordable and point-and-shoot cameras are feature-packed. And now, you can showcase your 360 degree panorama photos in Google Earth. "Today, the Google Earth photo view... |
13 November 2010
05:03 GMT |
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Panoramio, Google's geo-location photo sharing site, is adding a great new feature for scuba diving and underwater photography enthusiasts, the possibility to upload ocean images to the service."Panoramio has always been about sharing places of the world with your camera. Today we are very excited to announce we... |
28 October 2010
09:53 GMT |
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Google and Slooh have announced a partnership which will bring the live astronomy service to Google Earth Sky. As part of the partnership, many of the images captured with Slooh until now will be available in Google Earth as well as a dedicated layer in Sky. "Sharing a joint mission to map the universe, Slooh and Goo... |
15 October 2010
11:27 GMT |
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Google is on a mission to recreate the world in 3D for its mapping products. That's no small feat, luckily Google can rely on the help of volunteers who, using tools like the Google Building Maker, can easily model their towns for the world to see. And Building Maker is now one year old. "October 13 is... the fi... |
14 October 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Panoramio doesn't really get the attention it deserves from Google, but it's a crucial service for the company's online mapping service. The site has a rather dedicated community around it and Google is now providing them with a statistics tool to enable them to track how popular their photos are. "Pho... |
5 October 2010
06:15 GMT |
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Google Earth for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has been updated to version 3.1 to support the new iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4th generation Retina Display, as well as to bring the ocean layer, bathymetry, and ocean surface support.“We recently announced the arrival of ocean bathymetry and ocean layer content to Goog... |
21 September 2010
08:28 GMT |
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Google Earth comes packed with a plethora of information. And since it's connected to the web, the information is always up to date and the amount of data is always increasing. Now Google has introduced a new data layer which shows all commercial flights currently above the US, with a slight time delay. "Thanks ... |
17 September 2010
10:46 GMT |
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Google Earth 5.2 has come out of beta with the release of Google Earth 5.2.1.1588. While it doesn't have any new features for existing users, the update fixes some of the bugs left in the beta version. "We’re excited to announce that Google Earth Pro 5.2 is now out of beta," Cristelle Blackford, from the G... |
9 September 2010
10:20 GMT |
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Google Earth Enterprise 4.0 has now been released, bringing a couple of major new features suited for the enterprise environment. Google Earth Enterprise 4.0 comes with mobile client for Android devices based on the regular Google Earth app available in the Android Marketplace.
Another major new feature is off-line... |
13 August 2010
13:58 GMT |
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It has now been almost 65 years since the first, and thankfully the last time, an atomic bomb was used in combat. The numbers of survivors of the attacks is getting smaller and soon there will be no one left to tell the story first hand. The Nagasaki Archive is a website dedicated to highlighting the stories of some ... |
4 August 2010
11:37 GMT |
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Placing massive amounts of data or powerful new tools at everyone’s disposal always leads to unexpected results. Many times, those results are positive, sometimes they’re not. Google Earth and Google Maps have enabled everyone in the world to access data only available to the military or powerful corporat... |
2 August 2010
06:23 GMT |
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A few months ago Google Maps got a very interesting new feature, the possibility to view the maps using the Google Earth plugin, adding a third dimension to the experience. This made exploring locations in Maps a lot more interesting but it also proves helpful when you need to get a perspective on a place and the reg... |
30 July 2010
06:51 GMT |
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Google Earth is already a great way to travel around the world from the comfort of your armchair and now it’s got a new feature that makes it even more immersive, real-time weather. If it’s raining or snowing in the location you’re currently visiting, the weather is depicted in Google Earth as well.... |
30 July 2010
04:08 GMT |
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Google wants as much 3D content for Google Earth and Maps as possible but the number of talented 3D modelers willing to devote their time for this is limited. Last fall the Google Building Maker tool was introduced to simplify the process and to give everyone a chance at recreating the buildings in their town for Goo... |
28 July 2010
09:33 GMT |
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Experts are puzzled at a discovery recently made in the Egyptian desert. The area revealed a pristinely-preserved crater, which looks as if it was made on the Moon or Mars. Generally, impact features made on Earth are eroded by a host of natural processes, whereas the other two celestial bodies tend to preserve their... |
23 July 2010
03:50 GMT |
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The technical challenges of maintaining a detailed map of the world are hard enough, but things get even more complicated when you factor in political issues like border disputes. Google tries to maintain a neutral view, but, in many cases, there is no universally accepted version so the Maps team has to try to satis... |
21 July 2010
04:11 GMT |
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Google has added another location to its growing list of cities recreated in 3D in Google Earth. It’s the fourth Spanish city to get selected so there are clearly a lot of passionate volunteers in the country. After Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona, Seville is now also available in three dimensions in Google Eart... |
20 July 2010
10:08 GMT |
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Every once in a while, when it has enough data to work with, Google introduces new cities to the Google Earth 3D Buildings layer. A steady stream of new cities have been added for the past months and now it’s time for not one but two new cities to share the honor of being included, Berlin and Stuttgart. Both ci... |
9 July 2010
06:26 GMT |
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The greatest cycling competition, the Tour de France, just got underway yesterday and lovers of the sport have every reason to be excited. For the next 21 days, the world’s best riders will battle it out for the greatest honor in cycling, to be the winner of the Tour de France. A lot of people will be camping o... |
5 July 2010
06:42 GMT |
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Google is adding a new location to the list of cities that are now available in 3D in Google Earth and Google Maps. This time it’s the small but famous Dutch port-city of Rotterdam that gets the 3D treatment. Many of the city’s buildings have been recreated in three dimensions by volunteers and enthusiast... |
24 June 2010
07:07 GMT |
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Google has updated its Earth app for iOS devices to version 3.0, adding native support for the iPad, including full-resolution imagery and an iPad-specific look and feel, and road layer for the iPad and iPhone 3GS. The 3.0 update is the first version of Earth built for a tablet device. Imagery is now displayed in ful... |
15 June 2010
10:52 GMT |
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Google has released the latest update to its Google Earth desktop application. The tool comes with the usual array of tweaks, fixes and improvements, but also with a couple of new big features. Those who love the outdoors will also love the new tracking and visualization features in Google Earth 5.2, which enable use... |
15 June 2010
05:06 GMT |
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Google is on a quest to recreating the world inside Google Earth. It’s not satisfied with just the oceans and mountains, it wants everything to be in 3D. For a while now, cities have gotten some of the attention as well and Google, with the help of the community, is recreating the cities of the world in three d... |
28 May 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Plenty of the world’s cities are being recreated using 3D graphics for Google Maps and Google Earth. Google’s efforts combined with those of skilled and passionate volunteers have been paying off and more and more towns and cities can be explored in three dimensions from the comfort of your chair. The lat... |
26 May 2010
10:37 GMT |
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Google has announced the winner of the Model Your Town Competition. The challenge was to recreate your town in 3D for Google Earth using Google’s own SketchUp modeling software. Several hundred towns submitted their entry each vying for the first place. A month and a half ago, Google presented the five finalist... |
15 May 2010
06:34 GMT |
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Google Earth has always been a fascinating tool and with the new exposure it’s bound to get thanks to the integration in Google Maps, it will be an even greater way to explore vast landscapes or cities around the world. More recently, Google has been working on giving a third dimension to the cities and to... |
8 May 2010
07:17 GMT |
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The explosion at the Deepwater Horizon off-shore drilling rig, which led to a massive amount of crude oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, with no signs of stopping, is proving to be one of the biggest ecological catastrophes, certainly in US history. The oil spill that has been growing for a few weeks now, has reach... |
8 May 2010
06:44 GMT |
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If you’ve been using Google Earth lately, or maybe the new Earth view in Google Maps, you’ve noticed that there are plenty of 3D models for buildings and landmarks. They’re a welcomed addition to an otherwise static and ‘flat’ world. Well, you’re about to see even more of them, as ... |
6 May 2010
09:32 GMT |
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Almost two weeks ago, on April 20, an explosion and subsequent fire completely destroyed the Deepwater Horizon off-shore drilling rig. The explosion enabled crude oil to spill from the newly drilled well into the Gulf of Mexico. The disaster is being labeled as the worse oil-spill accident in US history and authoriti... |
5 May 2010
09:40 GMT |
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Google is finally comfortable enough with its Google Earth web browser plugin to include in Google Maps. The new Earth View in Maps enables users to view a full 3D version of any location on Earth. Google has been making an effort to have as many 3D buildings as possible and plenty of cities around the world are now ... |
28 April 2010
04:10 GMT |
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The Hubble Space Telescope is turning 20 today, a venerable age for such an important piece of hardware for modern astronomy. Over the years, it has provided some of the most spectacular and famous images of our galaxy and beyond. Google is one of the geekiest companies out there, so it wouldn’t miss out on an ... |
24 April 2010
06:07 GMT |
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People use Google Earth to visit interesting locations or even explore their cities from above and in 3D. Very few individuals would believe that the same tool could be employed for scientific discoveries, but this is exactly what happened with the recently documented discovery of a new, early hominid species in Sout... |
9 April 2010
03:52 GMT |
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Google's mapping efforts are nothing but ambitious. It is working diligently to make Street View imagery for as many of the Earth's cities as possible. It is also aiming to have them recreated in 3D in Google Earth. The satellite imagery of even the most remote places is becoming more detailed. Yet, most of... |
8 April 2010
04:22 GMT |
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Google has announced the finalists of the Model Your Town Competition that challenged people around the world to create a replica of their city or town in 3D. The idea, which is obvious when you look at the prizes, was to get the community involved and perhaps turn this into a school project. The competition ran sinc... |
2 April 2010
06:43 GMT |
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Not that many people use Google's customizable homepage, iGoogle, when compared with the number of people using the search engine, though 'many' is a very relative term in this case. Most employ it to get quick access to the information they need, but there is also the motivation of standing out a bit.... |
31 March 2010
03:10 GMT |
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More and more cities around the world, well, mostly in Europe, are now available in full 3D splendor in Google Earth. The latest to get spotlighted it the German city of Dortmund, which has been recreated faithfully in 3D by volunteers for potential tourists and proud citizens alike. Most of its buildings have been m... |
27 March 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Google continually updates and enhances its products, but, sometimes, the changes don't go particularly well with the users. While any change is bound to find its critics, and the vocal ones at that, the latest update to Google Earth has been particularly badly received, leading Google to tweak some of the chang... |
25 March 2010
10:11 GMT |
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Google Earth may finally be coming to people in Cuba, Iran and Sudan after having been blocked, along with any other US software downloads, in those countries as part of a trade embargo for the past couple of years. The US lifted the restrictions earlier this month, but the mapping software still isn't available... |
23 March 2010
06:08 GMT |
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Google's '3D modeling department' has been working overtime lately with a big number of updates, features and even competitions being revealed in a short period of time. The Building Maker web tool is now available in eight more cities and 25 new languages, Google says, and, as a reminder, the Model Yo... |
24 February 2010
10:38 GMT |
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Mountain View-based company Google launched on Monday a new application for handsets running under its Android 2.1 operating system, namely Google Earth. According to the company, this first iteration of Google Earth for Android comes with a nice range of features that desktop users of the application are already fa... |
23 February 2010
02:11 GMT |
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Google's quest to recreate the world under it own terms is moving ahead as scheduled, it seems. Luckily, we're not talking about some evil corporate conspiracy but rather about a more benign yet ambitious plan to have most of the world's cities modeled in 3D and available in Google Earth. The company&... |
15 February 2010
10:55 GMT |
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If you thought the Google Street View trike was weird, get a load of this, the official Street View snowmobile. Google wanted to take some shots of the locations of the events in the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Cars don't really do that well on ski slopes and, somehow, pedaling the trike, which Google normally u... |
10 February 2010
03:21 GMT |
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