Sudan is preparing to vote on January 9 to decide if the South will become independent from the North. The referendum is part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 ending the Civil War, which lasted 22 years and led to the deaths of an es…
Today, we are excited to let you know that we have updated the base map data in all Google Maps products and services for ten countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa and Switzerland…
Update (11/8/10): For those interested in reading more about the history of this dispute, consider checking out Stefan Geens’ thorough post over at Ogle Earth.Yesterday we became aware of a dispute that referenced the border between Costa Rica and Nica…
Hot off the satellite, we’ve received brand new Ikonos imagery of the recent sludge spill in Hungary. See the below screen shots for before/after images; you can also view the the imagery in Google Earth using this KML overlay. Special thanks to GeoE…
This Labor day brought Colorado its most destructive wildfire to date, as measured in structures lost. 169 homes were destroyed and 6,181 acres of mountain terrain were scorched as the Four Mile Canyon fire blazed its way through our hillside.Communit…
One of the most common requests we get from users–literally thousands of times each month–is that we update or improve the imagery of a certain location in Google Earth and Maps. In order to provide the freshest, highest quality data possible, we par…
In the four years that the SketchUp team has been working at Google, we’ve seen an unprecedented collection of user-generated 3D building models spring up all around the world. It is exciting and gratifying to see what you’ve all been able to do wi…
From time to time we invite guest posters to share their views on items relevant to the use of Google Earth. Here we have a post from Google Earth Outreach grantees Amazon Watch and International Rivers, two U.S.-based organizations that support Brazil…
At Google, we are constantly making improvements to all of our products, from Search to Gmail, Blogger to Chrome. When it comes to products like Google Earth and Google Maps, we work hard to improve our cartography and depict geopolitical features as a…
When we started the “Send-To-Car” service on Google Maps more than three years ago with BMW, only a few car makers offered connected services to their drivers. The industry has come a long way since then. Several car manufacturers have made industry-ch…
(cross-posted from the Google European Public Policy Blog)In May we announced that we had mistakenly included code in our software in Street View cars that collected WiFi payload data. As soon as we discovered our error, we not only stopped collecting …
Sometimes, little things can make a big difference. Since our last major style evolution, we have been making ongoing incremental improvements to the style of our maps. We’d like to highlight a few of the more recent changes and show the impact of pa…
The Google Earth and Maps team has just finished pushing out yet another imagery update. Though we didn’t blog about it at the time, many of our sharp-eyed fans also noticed that we updated a number of cities back on May 26th. There’s plenty to see in …
Good news today if you’re house-hunting in Camden Town or Kew Gardens – property search has come to maps.google.co.uk. From today, visitors to maps.google.co.uk will be able to click “Properties…” on the More menu in Maps to see a little red d…
Google Earth has been finding itself in all sorts of places lately, from the iPhone to Android phones, to the browser, and even the car. Today, hot on the heels of yesterday’s launch of Google Earth 5.2 we are proud to announce that Google Earth is no…