This is a creative way to play football from inside Google Earth.rnrnPick your favorite stadium and "punt". The game works a lot like the football games on early PCs but you are playing on a real field.rnrnThe game tracks tons of stats wit
James Stafford, better known at the Google Earth Community as "Barnabu", has written a cool post on creating a 3D sky for Google Earth at the Barnabu blog. He calls it a "skydome". He basically created a half-sphere (or hemisphere) using Google
The Geographic Web layer has now been made into a single layer (instead of three sub-layers). The layer still contains the Wikipedia placemarks, the Panoramio photo layer, and the Best of Google Earth Community placemarks. But, they are now represen
Google has announced the acquisition of Clayton, Missouri based ImageAmerica, a company that builds high-resolution cameras for the collection of aerial imagery.
ImageAmerica has previously provided images for Google Maps and Earth, including hig
Google has pushed out an update to the 3D Buildings layer. If you fly to Hamburg in Google Earth and turn on the 3D Buildings layer, it will begin loading the huge number of buildings available. Note, it will take minutes just to load a few blocks o
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) have created an excellent Google Earth visualization showing the location of drilling of scientific boreholes in oceans all over the world. Each placemark is color-coded according to the different program
It is a known fact that the web and the internet fraternity is the largest in the world.Almost every corner on planet earth boasts of an internet user.There are millions of activities and stuff on the web that is unknown to more then half of interne
The latest version of Google Earth comes with a flight simulator. Just press the CTRL+ALT+A and you will start up a flight simulator and fly around the globe in the cockpit of an F16 or SR22 prop plane.
Closer inspection of the specifications of the imaging system of the WorldView I reveals that it is "panchromatic". So, does this translate to "black and white"?
Google has released StreetView data for a bunch of new cities: Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Tucson. Phoenix, Tucson and parts of Chicago are even high-res.
They’ve also added the ability to pan up in many cities. Th
Is the Minority Report scene where John Anderton walks through a shopping mall and personalized advertisements jump out at him getting close to actual reality?
Is your link bait working? As RSS feeds, social book marking and virtual communities seeding the exchange of information, it doesn't take hours or days to disseminate information and create a buzz, merely the click of a button.
Zillow had released some data to the public domain which provides the outline shapes of 7000 neighborhood boundaries in the US.
Matt Fox of Google Earth Library, converted the Zillow data and put it up on his blog.