Tag: GOOGLE EARTH

Well, we're a little late given that the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing has passed, but this version of Lunar Lander is just too cool to pass up. Grant wrote about the classic versions of Lunar Lander last month, and though this one is certainly inspired by the same event, the implementation is just a tad different. To play this 3D version of Lunar Lander you will need the ...

In an impressive case of two great tastes that taste great together, Google Earth for the iPhone is now available in the iTunes app store. If you like Google Earth on the desktop, you'll like it even more when you can manipulate the globe with your fingertips. Zooming and rotating are easy with the familiar iPhone pinch motion, and the iPhone's GPS adds a new dimension to Earth. I was hooked on ...

Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google. In this edition: Olympic madness Google Translate comes to the iPhone New Google Earth API resources Directly link to Google Mapplets Get your Picasa prints at Walgreens ...

Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this, day late, dollar short edition: Inside the Google favicon redesign Get transit schedules from Google Maps for mobile Explore the Magic Kingdom in 3D Location-aware Applications now available to 3rd party developers Round-up of other Google stories we covered this week ...

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition: Google I/O round-up Use Google to reference your JavaScript libraries Google Web Toolkit 1.5 RC Other random Google bits ...

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition: Geotagged YouTube videos on Google Maps Google Earth 4.3 to be released later today, includes Street View Market leader in China within 5 years - Goodbye Baidu? ...

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition: Google Maps tracks Olympic torch around world Google hiring: "Gmail doesn't yet build itself" ...

An innovative an dinteresting venture by the University of Southern California called Viewfinder seeks to spatially locate 2D pictures within a 3D environment like Google Earth. The end result places the pictures within Google Earth so that they seamlessly integrate within their environment. Can't picture it? Just check out the video after the jump, and check out the site for more information on ...

When we told you about the new Google Sky feature in the latest version of Google Earth, what we didn't know is that this version actually contains an Easter Egg, of sorts. It turns out that if you press Ctrl-Alt-A on a PC, or Command-Option-A on a Mac (making sure that the focus is not in a text field), you'll enable a flight simulator. It's not particularly well hidden, and once you've ...

Forget about going to a planetarium, Google Earth has expanded its view and is starting to focus on the stars. Sky in Google Earth has launched. This new addition to Earth enables viewers to check out different areas in the universe, from distant galaxies light years away, to constellations and planets. You must download the new version of Google Earth to get the features, then you're on your way ...

Google has acquired a company that makes high resolution cameras for capturing aerial images. ImageAmerica supplied Google with up to date images of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The move will allow Google to update the imagery in Google Maps and Google Earth. No word on how much Google paid for this latest acquisition or how long we'll have to wait before we see the new images start to ...

Between your television, radio, newspaper, and the Internet, there are hundreds of ways to get the weather forecast for your area, but few are as cool as guiWeather. This free download works with Google Earth to bring you information on the current conditions in your area, complete with radar and weather alerts. It even keeps track of global lightening strikes all over the world. guiWeather makes ...

If you've ever tried watching a movie with the sound off, you know how important audio can be for sucking you into the experience. Sure, you can catch the dialog via closed captioning, but you're missing out on music and ambient sounds that set the mood for each scene. For the most part, the web is a visual medium. When audio's available, it tends to be part of a separate experience like podcasts ...

Google has updated the imagery for Google Earth, providing high definition views of many more locations, including: UK images have been updated so that most of England is now in high resolution New color mapping for Germany Parts of Antarctica, Greenland, and Canada have been updated (we'll refrain from making jokes about similar numbers of people living in each of these places) High ...

It looks like Google is prepping a new feature for Google Maps that will include a street-level view. While it's not clear what that view will look like, how users will navigate, or if it will be easier to use than Microsoft's version (shown to the right), Google has registered a series of domain names related to the project: GOOGLE-MAPS-STREET-VIEW.COM GOOGLE-MAPS-STREET-VIEW.NET ...