This week Google released a new, browser based version of Google Earth. One of the first features you should check out in the new Earth is ‘Voyager’ (the ship’s wheel symbol). It consists of ...

I hope that embedding thing is used sparingly. Like the Google Earth Web version in general, It’s an obscene resource hog, Just loading this page caused Chrome to grab an extra 600MB of working ...

This release of the new Google Earth platform proves that more serious applications can be made to run quite well in a web browser. As I said in the review, the performance from a graphics ...

Scrolling down the page and you see there’s a world to explore with a new feature called Voyager. And there’s a new Google Earth for Android version as well. Back at the top, there is a button ...

It is often useful to be able to get Google Earth placemarks into Excel (or other spreadsheet application or even a database). One way to do this is to save your placemarks as a .KML file (do not ...

The region around Shenzhen, China, 1985 vs 2016 Note that the new data is created by blending all Landsat/Sentinel 2 data for a whole year to remove clouds and snow cover. The result is that ...

Today we are looking at how the Google Earth time toolbar works. The Google Earth time toolbar is used in three different instances and works slightly differently in each case: When you open ...

Google Earth has just had a makeover. Google has refreshed the global mosaic imagery that you see when zoomed out with newer, better quality imagery. When you zoom in, Google Earth transitions to ...

Surely the avoidance of extensive shadows from the sun low in the sky throughout shorter days is another key reason to avoid capturing imagery in winter in higher latitudes. As you say Timothy ...

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 interesting.

A GEB reader recently asked us how to import geotagged photos into Google Earth. We are not looking at geotagging/geolocating which is the process of attaching a latitude and longitude to a photo.

Yesterday we had a look at the progress made by Google in releasing 3D imagery for Google Earth. For this we used this KML map that we maintain that shows the areas covered by 3D imagery.