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 ...

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 ...

Explore new features coming to Google Earth and take a look back at the major milestones of the platform since 2005. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

If you open Google Maps on your computer (go ahead, I’ll wait), you’ll likely see the town or city you live in, or maybe the last place you looked up. Now, zoom out. No, more than that. Keep going.