Google Earth Blog Exclusive: The new Globe Glider has finally been released. Globe Glider first came out over a year ago and allowed you to tie a Google Map to Google Earth in an integrated fashion.

[UPDATE May 2007: Read about the new version of Globe Glider and see a video of it in action.] Every once in a while, someone does something truly groundbreaking with Google Earth. Globe Glider is an ...

New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could ...

Updates for worldwide virtual mapping applications are like buses: you wait ages for one then two come along at once. We had a spare minute this morning, so we thought we'd take a look at Virtual ...

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With this update, Google Earth becomes less of a blank canvas and more of a real, actionable travel tool. The addition of 'knowledge cards,' Wikipedia-powered morsels of information about different ...

Google Earth does the job when you want to zoom in on your hometown or see your own roof, but it’s more than an interactive map. Discover a new dimension to Google Earth, and find out how to create ...

When a hurricane forms or a river swells, the urgent question isn't just where the crisis will strike, but who will be hit ...

Google Earth is already a powerful tool for observing our planet, but today it’s getting a major upgrade with the introduction of a new 3D time-lapse feature. Described by Google Earth director ...

Take a look at a map today, and you might think North America is larger than Africa or Greenland is larger than Mexico and China. But that's not true in the slightest. The issue derives from trying to ...

Google Map’s Street View technology now plays a significant role in Google Maps as part of the new version 6 of the mapping software. Google Earth version 6 was released Monday giving new meaning to ...

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