Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
New technology will allow Queenslanders to access property, development, education and tourism data through Google Earth. Premier Campbell Newman on Wednesday launched the free Queensland Globe computer program as part of his government's Open Data push. Information...
Sunday, March 17th, 2013
"The East Japan Earthquake Archive"provides a digital map-based archive for visualizing and telling the real state of the damage situation of the East Japan Earthquake using Google Earth. Since data such as photographs, panorama pictures and disaster victims'...
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
There’s no button on Google Earth for “Show Concentration Camps,” which is probably a good thing for North Korea given that human rights activists are now using Google Earth precisely to show where North Korea has their...
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
This is one of the most interesting finds in Google Earth in quite some time. A few weeks ago a first time poster, called KenGrok, at the Google Earth Community (GEC) discovered a very exact scale model of some...
Friday, November 9th, 2012
Australian scientists and non-profits will use Google Earth to save the Earth under several environment-focused partnerships with Google announced this week. Google yesterday announced it is bring its Google Earth Outreach program to Australia and New Zealand. Researchers...
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced the release of the GRGlobe™ application, a new commercial software solution to create, edit, and visualize Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data natively in a Google Earth environment. GRGlobe...
Saturday, August 11th, 2012
A new website uses Google Earth technology combined with historical photographs and personal testimonies for a neighborhood-by-neighborhood view of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in the closing days of World War II. Developed by Hidenori Watanabe, the...
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
A delegation from the internet giant Google is expected to come to Iceland in the next two to three months to learn about an Icelandic IT system used to monitor fishing. The possibility to link it to...