Tag: EARTH

Santa is coming to Google Earth! And its up to you to find the treasures that Santa's elves have left all over Google Earth! Starting December 12th, and finishing up on December 24th, a clue will appear outside of Santa's North Pole workshop every day. If you can solve it, you will be lead to a toy hiding in Google's satellite imagery. Don't worry if you get stuck, the whereabouts will be ...

Gaia was working on reverse engineering Google Earth seeing as there was no open source API that has been made available yet. The work stopped when Gaia received a request to discontinue the project from Google's Michael Jones. The project was well on its way to producing a full-fledged open and customizable application. Gaia was being built to support Keyhole authentication, 3D views and layers. ...

Microsoft is keeping things interesting in the mapping community by releasing its Virtual Earth online application. Microsoft has actually decided to add in real photographs of buildings, a feature that Google Earth has not yet implemented. Microsoft currently has 15 US cities with the 3D views, and plans to have more than 100 cities by the third quarter of next year. Another difference with ...

The latest release of Google Earth comes packaged with a surprise: drawing tools. They were previously only available in the paid upgrades of the applications used by professionals. This newly added feature adds path and polygon drawing tools to easily draw and pinpoint areas, for easier communication. Time animation has also been added to the newest Google Earth Version 4 Beta. These overlays can ...

Despite being mostly a Windows boy myself, I'm really glad to see Google moving some of its apps to other platforms. Today Google announced the availability of Google Earth 4 Beta, which is a free download not just for Windows, but also for Mac OS X (yes, it's a universal binary) and Linux. Aside from going multi-platform, Google Earth 4 sports a new, sleeker interface, support for textured ...

What do you get when you take Google Earth and put it in a Volkswagen? Something like this. Volkswagen has partnered with Google and nVidia to create an in-car navigation system based on Google Earth that shows a driver's route in 3D. The touch-screen system is Internet-enabled and goes online to find real-time traffic and weather information as well as other travel information like gas stations, ...

Another day, another Google acquisition. Just in time for Pi Day, Google has scooped up @Last Software, makers of SketchUp, a 3D drawing app for Windows and Mac OS X. The @Last web site describes SketchUp as a "deceptively simple, amazingly powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily." In the announcement on the Official Google Blog, @Last's Jeff Martin ...

Microsoft has unveilled a technology preview of a new part of its web-based Windows Live Local called Virtual Earth, which includes not only a satellite view like we're used to but also street-level photographs. It's a bit like A9's Block View, but has views in four directions instead of two, and it has a wild driving mode that lets you cruise around the streets like you're actually there. Sort ...

The Register is reporting that South Korea is gearing up to have a chat with the US over how prolific Google Earth's services are. Apparently, a few too many sensitive areas and structures are just a little too hi-res in Google's fantastic mapping service for South Korea's comfort. Some structures look like nothing more than an old Atari game, but others (like their hi-res version of what I ...

Just FYI for everyone who didn't get a first crack at Google Earth before it went "down for a breather," it looks like the service is back up. I was able to download another copy of the free version to a PC here in my office.In case you missed it the first time around, Google Earth allows you to look at any location/address on the entire planet using satellite photos and a really slick ...