Earth Day is coming up this weekend, and to celebrate, Google Earth received a major update today to version 9. This version is again designed to run in a Web browser (just Chrome for now), but ...

Google teased that it would be launching a ‘brand new experience’ for Google Earth, and it has today announced the details. The biggest change is that Google Earth is no longer a standalone app on ...

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Google just released a new browser plugin that lets users experience Google Earth from directly inside a webpage. The new plugin is accompanied by an API that web developers can use to easily ...

Why it's Google's greatest achievement to date... Who would have thought maps could be so much fun? I've always been fascinated by travel and able to lose myself in maps and the potential they promise ...

A new blog called GeoChalkboard has been started by Geospatial Training Services to provide “how-to” guides for GIS professionals focused on using Web 2.0 geospatial applications (like Google ...

Google Earth Announces 'for Mac OS X 10.11' and It's Not What You Think originally appeared on Parade. Google Earth are masters of confusion. While that name is best known as the web-based program ...

Coming soon to Google Earth: Time travel. According to Google, some new updates on the way to the company's satellite imagery platform Google Earth, will allow users to "travel back in time" and view ...

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 that ...

Google runs one of the most impressive 3D mapping tools available. It's a reliable go-to for planet zooming, location finding, and basic geo-analysis. But, unlike Google Maps, Google doesn't market it ...