I’m happy to announce that we’ve recently added a large update of historical imagery to Google Earth. While looking through these images I once again realized how powerful historical imagery is in illustrating the progress of events in our world. The…
Over the past few months, users have created rich and comprehensive maps in 164 countries around the world. Today with our newly launched feature on Google Map Maker, you can get driving directions in regions where this was not previously available. Fo…
After much review our judges finalized their decisions for the winners of the KML in Research contest. The contest was designed to generate some new and exciting KML that focused on science and research applications. Some contestants used the form…
My colleague Naomi and I recently presented at APTA TransITech 09 in Toronto. TransITech is the biggest technology conference for the transit industry in North America. I remember attending it last year when I just started working on the Google Transi…
Over on the Official Google Blog, you can read about a new search feature that shows you information about recent earthquakes. A seach for the term “earthquakes” will list the most recent seismic activity, provided by the US Geological Survey. You can …
This past weekend, 630,000 volunteers joined together in Australia to take part in Clean Up Australia Day. By the end of the day, they had collected nearly 8,300 tons of trash from their streets, parks, beaches, and neighborhoods. In the past, Clean …
[Cross-posted with the SketchUp blog]A few weeks ago, you saw the tour of 3D models under the ocean for the Google Earth 5.0 launch. With the SketchUp maintenance software that released yesterday, you too can model your very own underwater world! T…
Starting today, a new feature lets you browse popular user-contributed photos from Panoramio at major landmarks around the world. The many people who virtually visit Paris to see the famous Eiffel Tower or the Notre Dame cathedral in Street Vi…
Today, maps of 16 countries have graduated from Google Maps Maker to Google Maps. Adding the data generated in Map Maker to Google Maps has been highly requested by the Map Maker community from practically the day it was launched. Following our recent …
[Note: Last week we saw some interesting speculation that Atlantis had been found in Google Earth. As much as we’d love for that to be the case, there is a scientific explanation for the odd markings found on the seafloor. We’ve invited two of the scie…
At Google, we make engineering decisions based on careful data collection and analysis. So when I tried, on my own, to understand deeper the issues of the global climate change, I realized that while general information is widely available, it’s not ea…
Over the last 7 months, map makers around the world have been busy mapping their locales using Google Map Maker. From Chile to Vietnam Google Map Makers added cities, villages, lakes, roads and businesses to the map. The resulting maps in 164 countries…
Many people around the world tell us that using Google Transit on the desktop or on their mobile makes using public transportation much more convenient for them. We haven’t reached our dream of having coverage for all public transit agencies, but we’ve…
Ever wish you could see more than just ten local search results at once? Us too.So we’ve added a search layer for local search results that activates when there are more relevant results than we can show on one page. Instead of just plotting the first …
As an avid Google Maps user, I find myself turning to the map to search for increasingly varied types of local information. From simply locating an address to looking for a very specific type of business, I always check the map first. In fact, Goog…