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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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Google Earth is a great tool for exploring our planet and beyond with the new Mars and Moon data. Yet, some of the most remote and inaccessible places aren't in space but right here on Earth in the depths of the oceans. Luckily, Google opened up those places too, enabling anyone to be an undersea explorer. Flo... |
5 February 2010
11:53 GMT |
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Google Earth can be a great tool to explore places you may not be able to get to otherwise. But few people know that it can also be a great tool for exploring times we're certainly not able to 'go to' in any other way. Google Earth has a great feature called 'historical imagery' which enable... |
5 February 2010
10:14 GMT |
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Google has plenty of reasons not to be satisfied with this world, the recent issues in China, all the people criticizing Google Books, Street View, the increasing government scrutiny, you name it. Maybe that's why it's working on creating a new one, or at least recreating this one on its own terms, in Goog... |
30 January 2010
06:24 GMT |
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It's so common place now that it’s hard to imagine what it was like before Google Maps and Google Earth burst onto the scene. Being able to view any corner of the Earth in detail from your desk doesn't sound that impressive, but it was somewhat of a pipe dream even 20 years ago. No point wallowing in... |
26 January 2010
07:08 GMT |
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The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are very close now and sports fans are probably eagerly awaiting the start of the competitions. In the mean time though, Google has made it possible for them to familiarize themselves with the venues for all the events by making detailed 3D models available in Google Earth and onli... |
20 January 2010
10:23 GMT |
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Two dimensions just don't cut it anymore for Google and now it’s all about 3D in Google Earth. The company has set out to recreate every city on Earth in three dimensions, or at least try, and has enlisted the help of its users to achieve this. Last month, it launched a competition to spur more people into addi... |
8 January 2010
05:38 GMT |
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The 2010 Winter Olympic Games are getting closer and the buzz is already starting to build up. Those who just can't wait to see how it unfolds have a reason to be pleased, Google has introduced the 3D models for all the venues in Google Earth, enabling people to check out the locations well before the games beg... |
22 December 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Luxury car manufacturers constantly outdo each other in horsepower, features, comfort and, most of all, gadgets. The Mercedes S Klasse, the BMW 7 Series and the Audi A8, top of the line models for each manufacturer, pack in more gadgets than the Enterprise in an effort to justify their unattainable status. The latest... |
17 December 2009
11:40 GMT |
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Google is always updating the satellite imagery in Maps and Earth to provide its users with updated or better quality images. This comes in handy in a lot of cases, so it's obvious why the company is investing so much in acquiring the imagery. If it were only that Google would be like any other company, but it ... |
11 December 2009
07:23 GMT |
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Using Google Maps, or Google Earth for that matter, can be a lot of fun, but there's certainly a utilitarian side to it. Recently Google has greatly expanded the usefulness of Maps by adding Place Pages, entries for many interesting and important places around the world filled with information, photos and other... |
9 December 2009
09:28 GMT |
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Using Street View can be a lot of fun and can be a really immersive experience. Using Google Earth takes it one step further with the possibility to view any place on Earth, and on the Moon and Mars as well. But even with the biggest high-def monitor, in fact even with two of them, you're not going to get close... |
7 December 2009
11:21 GMT |
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Mapping the world online poses a lot of different challenges not only from a technical perspective but also from a political one. Google has some of the best software engineers in the world so it's safe to assume they can tackle any technical issue to overcome and, for the most part, so far they have. Some probl... |
5 December 2009
08:00 GMT |
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Google Maps is great for practical information, and satellite imagery can be very useful and fun in many cases. Adding a third dimension though can make things a lot more exciting, so Google is pushing to get more 3D models for Google Earth with a new competition dubbed “Model Your Town.” The name says i... |
2 December 2009
05:45 GMT |
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Google Maps is great for mapping out a trip, getting directions, or finding a Chinese restaurant near you, but Google Earth manages to make maps actually fun. The latest version of Google's 3D mapping software just shed its beta tag after getting rid of most of the lingering bugs. With Google Earth 5.1 the focu... |
19 November 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Google Earth for the iPhone and iPod touch was launched into the wild about a year ago, and now the software solution just reached version 2.0. According to Google, the app managed to become the second most downloaded one in the App Store in about six months, and now users will be able to enjoy a series of... |
17 November 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Online mapping services are becoming increasingly popular and useful and, as a result of that, more profitable for those running them. All the big players are present in the space, Google, of course, which started it all, but also Yahoo and Microsoft. They each have their advantages, but what most people don't r... |
5 November 2009
11:26 GMT |
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Google Maps has evolved almost beyond recognition since it was first launched but the search giant is far from satisfied. Having a 2D world to explore and play with is nice but a fully tridimensional one is so much better. Not content with just having some amusement park or famous buildings in 3D in Google Earth, the... |
14 October 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Not content with just conquering your browser, your computer, not even the world, Google is now boldly going where no search engine has gone before, outer space, to collect even better data for its Google Maps offering. OK, it isn't Google per se that is leaving the Earth's atmosphere and it isn't the ... |
13 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Google is always expanding the features in Google Earth either by adding new areas to explore – first the ocean, then the sky and so forth – or by releasing new custom layers offering users all sorts of interesting information. Now Google has updated the ocean layer, depicting some of the more interesting... |
22 September 2009
08:52 GMT |
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iGeo is a geo-tagging service designed to take advantage of the Microsoft and Google mapping, search and location platforms. Set up to enrich online text on websites, iGeo can leverage either Google Earth or Bing Maps, in order to expand the content related to specific geographical locations with links to the associa... |
17 September 2009
09:01 GMT |
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With great power comes great responsibility. This seems to be the motto of Internet giant Google, which has always had a humanitarian side, perhaps greater than any other company its size. From the countless open-source projects to the constant push towards an open Internet and to the more practical investments in cl... |
7 August 2009
06:08 GMT |
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Google is announcing the addition of the Moon to its Google Earth application. Many have been expecting the introduction for a while now and there have been some hints recently about the release. The announcement comes just in time to celebrate the 40-year anniversary of the first lunar landing, with Google Moon laun... |
20 July 2009
11:43 GMT |
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University of Michigan paleontologists Philip Gingerich, Gregg Gunnell and Bill Sanders can take great pride in the way they have managed to make important archaeological finds in the vastness of the Egyptian desert. Their story may seem a bit far-fetched at first, but the trio say that there has been no scam involve... |
29 April 2009
05:33 GMT |
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Google seems to be totally into our neighboring planet, as evidenced by the fact that only yesterday it introduced a new add-on to Google Earth 5.0, in which new images of the Red Planet were added, as well as a “Live From Mars” layer, that contains the latest images beamed back by the NASA-operated Mars ... |
14 March 2009
08:06 GMT |
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A British aeronautical engineer, who by all accounts had too much time on his hands, discovered what could be the most important finding of the last centuries – namely, a portion of ocean floor that could be the lost city of Atlantis. He made the discovery while checking out images provided by Google Earth 5.0,... |
21 February 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Google Earth is a great application for exploring new and exciting places, and its complex features provide you with the means to go anywhere on Earth and view 3D satellite images, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and even the ocean.Now, the new and improved Google Earth offers you the possibility to relive your trips ar... |
6 February 2009
08:50 GMT |
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In order to meet the ever increasing needs of its users, Google Earth's functionality has been enhanced with new features, among which the Ocean in Google Earth is the most important. The innovation that version 5.0 of the popular application brings will allow users to virtually dive beneath the water surface, e... |
4 February 2009
02:40 GMT |
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For all you Mars fans out there, tired of shuffling through endless galleries on various sites in order to find information of use about the Red Planet, Google and NASA have decided to create Google Mars 3D, a new computer software meant to give each of its users the opportunity to thoroughly inspect our neighboring ... |
3 February 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Google has recently announced the release of a new art-related layer for Google Earth that will enable users to explore very detailed representations of several paintings from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid. This location is one of the most popular destinations for tourists who visit Spain, and the new layer ... |
15 January 2009
02:19 GMT |
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Our readers are familiar with the details on the better-quality imagery that Google Earth and Google Maps will soon benefit from. The 50 cm ground resolution images will turn the two Google applications into more than just fun tools, as they will offer an extensive view on various regions on the globe. This will all ... |
8 September 2008
03:35 GMT |
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Google has announced that users interested in the latest series of events related to Hurricane Gustav can now search for them on Google Earth. The application delivers, under the Weather tab, the latest information on the hurricane. The natural phenomenon was granted a special place in Google's applic... |
1 September 2008
11:03 GMT |
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Google's two popular projects, Google Earth and Google Maps, will benefit from images of a much better quality than that of those currently employed. The company has signed a contract with GeoEye, a satellite imagery provider, which will offer, according to Reuters as cited by the Washington Post, the most ... |
29 August 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Microsoft is permitting end users of Virtual Earth that are not happy with the content offered via the service to introduce patches with imagery. The Redmond company is constantly introducing double digit Terabytes imagery updates to Virtual Earth, but it is simply not enough, and entire areas of the world are covere... |
1 August 2008
10:41 GMT |
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The team from Google Earth is not sparing any effort when it comes to making the application as realistic as possible. Street view, 3D buildings and other features the team has recently come up with are some of the things that contribute to the popularity of Google Earth. The only thing that is missing to achieve a r... |
25 July 2008
07:20 GMT |
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The children of Google employees spent this past week in the "Geo Camp," a place where they could get in touch with Google Earth, Maps and Docs. These applications are probably the most appealing for kids between 9 and 12 years old, whose passion for all things science, nature and gadgets is vivid. After a week of ha... |
22 July 2008
05:47 GMT |
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Google Earth has been offering, for over three years now, a close view of the places that a few people only dream of seeing in reality. A new layer has been added to the platform, and we're talking about a 3D projection of some of the major cities in the world, but also of ambitious towns. Until now, only U.S. L... |
15 July 2008
11:43 GMT |
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Following the recent integration of the New York Times layer into Google Earth, an addition which allows users to read news straight from the mapping application, the Mountain View-based company has made another move to bring even more news to Google Earth fans: a brand new layer providing content powered by the Aust... |
2 June 2008
14:37 GMT |
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Since its release in 2005, Google Maps has become something that Internet users can really benefit from - an online mapping solution that allows them to get more information than just the usual directions to the nearest Mall. Prior to the Google Maps release, online maps only offered basic information. Google thought... |
29 May 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Since Google rolled out the 4.3 version of Google Earth, users have been discovering new imagery updates which simply allow them to enjoy different corners of the world straight from the desktop. Although I'm not sure whether this is something new or it has also been integrated into the 4.3 release, a 3D version... |
27 May 2008
08:16 GMT |
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If you are a developer and you find yourself in San Francisco between 28-29 this month, you might want to add a very important event to your agenda. Google is going to hold its annual developers' meeting, where developers using Google's products are expected to arrive in large numbers. This year, the meetin... |
27 May 2008
02:59 GMT |
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