This is part of a series on calibration targets. Today we are having a look at various calibration targets around the world. We start in India at the Shadnagar campus of the National Remote ...

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 have to download and ...

While exploring Google Earth’s 3D imagery, you will probably have noticed that even in the busiest cities, people are largely absent. This is because of the way the 3D imagery is captured. Based ...

With Christmas this weekend and Santa being tracked around the world, but the exact location of his base near the North Pole remaining secret, it is a good time to talk about why the poles are not ...

Google has released a free new version of Google Earth on a totally different computing platform: Virtual Reality (VR). Google imaginatively calls it Google Earth VR. Specifically, for now, this ...

There are several different ways to automate animated historical imagery that we have explored in the past. The first, and easiest, is to use a Google Earth Tour that simply changes the date by a ...

Landsat 8 imagery vs Sentinel 2A imagery. Images courtesy of USGS/NASA Landsat and Copernicus Sentinel data 2016. To see the images in Google Earth download this KML file.

This is the fourth and final in a series of posts about the size of the data in Google Earth. We already looked at: How much data 3D imagery requires How much data different types of 2D imagery ...

Google has recently released Street View for the country of Sri Lanka. Read more about it on the Google LatLong blog. As of this writing the blue outlines for the Sri Lankan Street View are not ...

Recently, we had a look at recent additions to Street View. We also included a map of changes over the past month. There were two spots in the ‘changes’ map that we found particularly ...

We were recently asked by a GEB reader whether or not it is possible to add labels to paths and polygons. The ability to add labels to paths was added to KML with version 6.1 of Google Earth ...

[Update: Also see this post for tips on how to get your icon back.] Since the latest update to the Google Earth client, we have recently had a number of people contact us saying that their Google ...