Last week you heard about the new GPS track functionality in Google Earth 5.0. Well, you now have another way to record and visualize your outdoor activities with today’s launch of My Tracks. My Tracks is an application for Android-powered phones suc…
The Google Australia Blog continues to update its map of the Victoria fires, and it now includes recent satellite imagery from the Modis Rapid Response project at NASA/GSFC. You can also view the map, further information about the fires, and recent ne…
[Cross-posted from the Google Australia Blog. Updates will be posted on the Google Australia Blog. --Ed.]Over the weekend, a terrible bushfire tragedy has been unfolding in Victoria, Australia.We’ve today pulled together a Flash Map, containing the la…
I’m a pretty spontaneous gal; I moved to London a few months ago just to see what it was like [for those of you wondering, this side of the pond is brilliant!]. This personality trait has made it difficult to keep in touch with my friends, which is why…
When people think about Google Earth, they often think satellite imagery. Yet, since the early days of Google Earth, we’ve been working with local governments and other public sector organizations to add their aerial imagery as well. Thanks to t…
How often have you flown around Google Earth and thought to yourself, “Man! This looks so cool… I wish I could share this with my friends”? For me, it’s been every day for almost four years. You see, I started using Google Earth years ago to plan and…
This week, the U.K. is experiencing what is considered to be its worst winter storm since the early ’90s. To keep track of the historic snowfall, there are several great My Maps. You can view photographs and see how much accumulation there is in differ…
Google Earth is a great tool for sharing stories about your favorite hiking, biking, and running trips. Partners such as Trimble Outdoors , Wikiloc, and EveryTrail have created great layers in Earth to explore trails in 3D. But how can you get your o…
Yesterday we held a special event to unveil Google Earth 5.0, and musician Jimmy Buffett made a surprise appearance to talk about how he’s putting one of the new features, Touring, to use. Touring is one of the amazing new features in Google Earth 5.0 …
Google Earth has done much to help humans understand their planet, opening the eyes of many to new views of places near and far. But for some time now, the Google Earth team has failed to prioritize the obvious needs of a very select but important pote…
Google Earth has always aimed to deliver the most compelling and complete representation of the earth as possible. Until now, we have only been able to show a single image of any location. Displaying one image is fantastic for exposing the intricacy …
Posted by Sylvia A. Earle, Explorer-in-residence, National GeographicThree years ago, I met Google Earth and Maps Director John Hanke at a conference in Spain, and had a chance publicly to say how much I love Google Earth. “My children, my grandchild…
Gathering the imagery for Street View requires quite a bit of driving; as such, we take safety very seriously. Unfortunately, accidents do happen — as some people have noticed, one of our Street View cars hit a deer while driving on a rural road in up…
Growing up in Vancouver during its mushrooming period, which began in the mid-’80s, I witnessed a small city’s downtown core give way to a cosmopolitan urban center (or “centre,” as we write) of glass towers. Approaching the peninsular downtown, encase…
Our team has been on a roll adding more and more transit agencies to Google Maps, so we thought it was about time we update our landing page too. Now when you visit maps.google.com/transit, you’ll find a heatmap representation with pins that indicate…