Clean Up the World Weekend is scheduled for September 19-21. Conducted by cleanuptheworld.org in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme, Clean Up the World Weekend is a global initiative that encourages people to come together to cle…
Over on the Google Mobile blog, you can read all about some exciting new additions to Google Maps for mobile. You can now get even more of the Google Maps features you’ve grown to rely on –including Street View, walking directions, and business review…
Three days after Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, Texas as a Category 2 hurricane, severe flooding has challenged Gulf Coast residents from Texas to Louisiana. A team at Google has been gathering information we hope will be useful to residents of …
Greetings from Fairbanks! I’m writing from the Discovery Lab at the University of Alaska, where members of Google’s Geo Education team have just kicked off a series of workshops with educators and students who are interested in learning more abou…
As an update to the Hurricane Layer we launched last week, we’ve added some additional data to support the approach of potentially dangerous Hurricane Ike. The folks at Weather Bonk have once again provided us with Webcam data in Texas. Look under …
Sometimes it takes more than a list of directions from Point A to Point B to get you where you need to go: you need to know what stands in between you and your destination. To get an idea of what to expect when you hit the road, click on the “Traffic” …
Summer is my favorite season. It’s warm and sunny, there’s plenty of fresh fruit as a treat for my sweet tooth, all the extra daylight makes me feel more productive, and of course there are summer trips. This summer, a lot of transit agencies reported…
Hurricane Hanna is fast approaching the U.S. East Coast with another hurricane, Ike, hot on her heels. To be sure, the 2008 hurricane season, covering the Atlantic basin and the Eastern and mid-Pacific areas, is in full swing. To help keep track of the…
Let’s say you are on vacation in Paris and you want your friends to be able to see and interact with all the beautiful sights of the City of Lights. A regular postcard is good, but you know you can do better. So open up Google Earth, search for ‘Eiffe…
Today we are relaunching one of our oldest and most popular Global Awareness layers, the Altas of Our Changing Environment by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This Google Earth layer now showcases 187 sites around the world (over twice …
In the days since Hurricane Gustav first appeared on the radar (swiftly followed by several other storms), a team of Googlers has been gathering information we hope will be useful to residents of the affected regions and the relief agencies working to …
Ever wondered where you can find 15,000 geoscientists in one place? Head over to the Google Geo Developers blog to read a guest post from John E. Bailey of the Alaska Volcano Observatory. The post discusses what to look forward to at this year’s upcomi…
Every now and then, we mention that you can do a search in Google Maps or Google Earth using latitude and longitude coordinates. But sometimes the coordinates are just what you’re looking for, so here’s a quick tip on how to find them. In Google Earth,…
This week, we’ve added another layer to the Gallery in Google Earth. Spain-based Wikiloc aggregates thousands of GPS tracks for various outdoor activities provided by its growing user community. The layer not only lets you display the GPS tracks in Goo…
Looks like it’s time to replace that rickety compass with a few hundred of your favorite cattle. Ok, not that you would – but according to a team of German zoologists and the research they did using Google Earth, apparently you could. Using Google Ear…